Nicknames for Sylacauga include: " The Marble City ," " Buzzard's Roost ", “ Alabama ’ s Best-Kept Secret ” and " Sly Town ".

An elite town actually developed in and around this property, later called the Alabama Marble Company.

Alabama Marble Company remained under the same management until 1963 when it merged with The Georgia Marble Company.

Alabama Marble Company supplied marble for the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial.

Rushmore, sculpted a masterpiece from Alabama Marble – the bust of Lincoln – which stands today in the rotunda of the nation ’ s capitol.

Friends, a picture magazine distributed by Chevrolet dealers, describes a paramilitary organization of employees of the Gulf Telephone Company at Foley, Alabama.

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

In 1956, George Bunker, the president of the Martin Company, paid a courtesy call on Gen. John Medaris of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

* Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in Birmingham, Alabama, bought by U. S. Steel in 1907 ; U. S. Steel was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1991.

Electricity in Cullman County is provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority and by the Alabama Power Company.

File: Eufaula Alabama Cotton Reeves Peanut Company. JPG | Reeves Peanut Company, the Renaissance Revival-style warehouse was built by the Eufaula Grocery Company in 1903.

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" Blountsville, Alabama: a Case Study in the Use of the R. G. Dun & Company Credit Reports, 1847-1880.

The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.

Originally called Barber ’ s Cross Roads, it was briefly named Crenshaw ; but June 10, 1867, it was changed to Rutledge in honor of Captain Henry Rutledge, Company H. 59th Alabama Infantry, CSA.

It is home to a major hydroelectric power plant at Thurlow Dam operated by Alabama Power Company.

* John R. Kennamer, Sr .: The Story of Woodville, East Alabama Publishing Company, Lanett, Alabama, 1950, no ISBN

Category: Company towns in Alabama

Category: Company towns in Alabama

In 1848, the Montgomery & West Point Railroad Company extended a rail line from Montgomery, Alabama to Opelika, and in 1851 completed a connection to West Point, Georgia, thus connecting Opelika with Atlanta, Georgia.

These included the 4th, 11th, 21st, 23rd, and 43rd Alabama Infantry Regiments in addition to the 8th Alabama Cavalry, Company E of the Jeff Davis Legion, and Selden's Battery.

USS Pivot ( AM-276 ) launched at the Gulf Shipbuilding Company, Chickasaw, Alabama, on 11 November 1943.

Category: Company towns in Alabama

In Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Ry. Co., the commission had refused to permit abandonment of certain `` uneconomic '' train facilities.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

At the turn of the century, the former Confederate states had passed new constitutions and electoral laws that effectively disfranchised black voters and, in Alabama, many poor white voters as well.

* 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( NASA had already activated the facility on July 1 ).

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

Truth learned that her son Peter, then five years old, had been sold illegally by Dumont to an owner in Alabama.

The case involved an advertisement published in The New York Times indicating that officials in Montgomery, Alabama had acted violently in suppressing the protests of African-Americans during the civil rights movement.

It held in Hamilton v. Alabama,, that counsel had to be provided at no expense to defendants in capital cases when they so requested, even if there was no " ignorance, feeble mindedness, illiteracy, or the like.

27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.

* September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( which had been activated by NASA on July 1 ).

In 1837 Augustus attempted to obtain an appointment for James to the United States Military Academy, but the vacancy for his congressional district had already been filled so James was appointed in 1838 by a relative, Reuben Chapman, who represented the First District of Alabama ( where Mary Longstreet lived ).

Although he was born in South Carolina and reared in Georgia, he offered his services to the state of Alabama, which had appointed him to West Point and where his mother still lived.

The war attracted tens of thousands of laborers from around the country, though most were poor whites and blacks from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — sharecroppers and tenant farmers who had been recruited by Henry J. Kaiser to work in his shipyards.

Despite the landslide victory, Johnson, who carried the South as a whole in the election, lost the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, the first time a Democratic candidate had done so since Reconstruction.

The Upper Towns, located on the Coosa, Tallapoosa and Alabama rivers, were Tuckabatchee, Abhika, Coosa ( Kusa ; the dominant people of East Tennessee and North Georgia during the Spanish explorations ), Itawa ( original inhabitants of the Etowah Indian Mounds ), Hothliwahi ( Ullibahali ), Hilibi, Eufaula, Wakokai, Atasi, Alibamu, Coushatta ( Koasati ; they had absorbed the Kaski / Casqui and the Tali ), and Tuskegee (" Napochi " in the de Luna chronicles ).

As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205, 764 making it the second-largest city in Alabama, after Birmingham, and the 103rd largest in the United States.

The Coushatta and Alabama had gradually moved south and west after the French defeat by the British in 1763 in the Seven Years War.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Meredith conceded that he had little chance of winning unless Governor George Wallace of Alabama entered the presidential race and split the white vote.

At Class D, it was considered on the lowest rung of the minor league ladder, and had six clubs located in the American states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.