At the same time, his work was being published in the Huntsville Times and the Monroe Journal.

In 2009 Montgomery's violent crime rate was 429. 4 per 100, 000, well below Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile, below the state average, and similar to the national average.

Houston's reputation was sufficiently large that he was honored in numerous ways after his death, among them: the US's fourth largest city, a memorial museum, a U. S. Army base, a national forest, a historical park, a university and a prominent roadside statue outside of Huntsville.

Sam Houston was buried in Huntsville, Texas, where he lived in retirement ; after her death, his wife, Margaret Lea, was buried in Independence at her family's cemetery.

The key was taken from the name of the design and test base: Huntsville, Alabama, giving HUNTSVILE, with duplicated letters dropped: H was used for 1, U for 2, ..., E for 9 and X for 0.

The Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment was opened in 2011 in partnership with the Town of Huntsville, and is located in Huntsville, Ontario.

Butler County was formed from Conecuh County, Alabama, and Monroe County, Alabama, by an act passed December 13, 1819, by the Legislature while in session at Huntsville.

The German rocket team was moved from Fort Bliss to the Army's new Redstone Arsenal, located in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950.

Oberth eventually came to work for his former student, Wernher von Braun, who was developing space rockets for NASA in Huntsville, Alabama.

Hardin was tried in Comanche for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb, and sentenced to 25 years in Huntsville Prison.

This sentiment was encouraged by a June 4, 1861, speech in Huntsville by senator from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson.

The more direct route followed by I-45 was not initially part of the system between Richland and Huntsville ; this cutoff was added by 1919 as State Highway 32, and U. S. Highway 75 was assigned to the alignment in 1926.

* Orval E. Faubus ( 1910 – 1994 ), governor of Arkansas during the desegregation days, was from the Combs community near Huntsville.

At that time, the town was called Trion and it was a trading post on the Old Huntsville Road.

More people settled in the area and Huntsville was formally incorporated in 1811.

The Old Huntsville Road became Main Street and the city was incorporated in 1901.

U. S. 72, which now connects Chattanooga and Memphis, TN, was once part of an Indian trail from Ditto's Landing on the Tennessee River south of Huntsville and was used to bypass the Muscle Shoals river barrier.

Walker County is part of the Huntsville Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Houston – Baytown – Huntsville Combined Statistical Area.

Matagorda County is part of the Bay City Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Houston – Baytown – Huntsville Combined Statistical Area.

When Scott County was formed in 1849, Huntsville was chosen as the county seat due to the site's central location within the new county as well as an excellent spring that flowed across the property.

The presence of AEDC and the Space Institute, combined with a convenient proximity to the aerospace center of Huntsville, Alabama, has bred a small but thriving aeronautical industry as well.

Historically, Huntsville had nonstop or direct, no change of plane mainline jet service to the U. S. west coast as well as to Florida and Texas during the height of the U. S. space program.

The airline was still flying the Martin 4-0-4 from Huntsville as well at that time.

Three more ski resorts lie here, as well as several small towns ( such as Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden ).

Most of his slaves stayed on at the plantation, though he did bring with him to Huntsville his servant Michael, as well as Michael's wife and three children.

In 1972, Theodore George “ Ted ” Paraskevakos, while working with Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama, developed a sensor monitoring system which used digital transmission for security, fire and medical alarm systems as well as meter reading capabilities for all utilities.

With more than 1, 500 permanent rocketry and space exploration artifacts, as well as many rotating rocketry and space-related exhibits, the center occupies land carved out of Redstone Arsenal adjacent to Huntsville Botanical Garden at exit 15 on Interstate 565.

The University has performed well in external rankings, having listed among the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the Southern Region (# 31 ) and # 28 on the list of Best Historically Black Colleges and Universities by the U. S. News & World Report, tied with Alabama A & M University ( also in Huntsville ) and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Raycom is headquartered in Montgomery, the market just to the south of Birmingham, and also owns that market's NBC affiliate WSFA as well as WAFF, the NBC affiliate in Huntsville.

The privately-held Advance continues to own the News as well as The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register, the three largest newspapers in Alabama, as well as their shared website, al. com.

Huntsville, also known as " Rocket City " because it is a major center for space technology and rocket development, simultaneously named Ed White Middle School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for his Apollo 1 crewmates.

Originally known as " Rodgersville ", it took its name from Andrew and Patience Rodgers of South Carolina who moved into the area and purchased at a public land sale in Huntsville on May 3, 1818.

It was also known as " Huntsville.

Huntsville was named after a long hunter known only by the surname " Hunt.

Canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville Stars and became known as " Parkway Jose ", for his long home runs ( 25 in half a season ), that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium.

Les Stroud, a Canadian musician and survival expert best known as the host of the television program Survivorman, resides in Huntsville.

Huntsville International Airport, also known as Carl T. Jones Field, is an airport located 9 miles ( 14 km ) southwest of the central business district of Huntsville, a city in Madison County, Alabama, United States.

* WZDX-DT2, a television station licensed to Huntsville, Alabama, United States, also known as WAMY-TV

Sam Houston State University ( known as SHSU or Sam ) was founded in 1879 and is a public university located in Huntsville, Texas.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville ( also known as UAHuntsville or UAH ) is a state-supported, public, coeducational research university, located in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees, and is organized in five colleges: business, engineering, liberal arts, nursing and science.

Begun in January 1950 as an extension of the University of Alabama and known as the University of Alabama Huntsville Center, classes were first taught at West Huntsville High School.

Normal was established in 1890, when AAMU was then known as State Normal and Industrial School of Huntsville.

It is known as Harvey Road between Business SH 6-R and FM 158 in College Station, as 11th Street between I-45 and US 190 ( Phelps Dr ) in Huntsville, and as Riverside Drive east of US 190 ( Phelps Dr ) in Huntsville.

There was heavy security outside the Huntsville Unit, known as " The Walls ", with riot police equipped with tear gas and batons.

* Decatur, Alabama, known as " The River City ", dominated the economic landscape of north Alabama until the late 1950s, when the space race catapulted its neighbor Huntsville ( see below ) into that position.

The Von Braun Center ( VBC ), known as the Von Braun Civic Center ( VBCC ) until 1997, is a multi-purpose indoor arena, meeting, and performing arts complex, with a maximum arena seating capacity of 10, 000, located in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Virginia Lancers were a charter member of the East Coast Hockey League in 1988, later known as the Roanoke Valley Rebels and Roanoke Valley Rampage before moving to Huntsville, Alabama after the 1992-93 season.

In approximately 1779, the Robert Harvey family settled a small ranch near present-day Huntsville, becoming the first known U. S. citizens to emigrate to Texas.

Big Spring International Park ( also known as Big Spring Park ) is located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama.

:* WUMP, a sports radio station in Huntsville, Alabama, known as SportsRadio 730 The UMP.