|  Harnessing the Tennessee River made it possible to control floods and turn the eroded soil into bountiful crop land. The river became the South's most important waterway, and giant Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams brought electric power and industrialization to once bypassed cities. They also gave northern Alabama nationally renowned water recreation areas.
Cotton, the traditional wealth of Alabama's rich Black Belt, fed the busy port of Mobile until the 1870s, when Birmingham grew into an industrial center. TVA brought the other great shift in the 1930s, culminating in new hydroelectric and steam plant power production in the 1960s.
Cotton and river waterways were the combination on which the Old South was built. The Cotton State supreme by the 1850s, Alabama built river towns like Selma, the old capital of "Cahawba," and Montgomery, the new capital and "cradle of the Co...
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Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo, Gulf Shores |
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery |
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Alabama State Docks, Mobile |
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Alabama State University, Montgomery |
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Arlington, Birmingham |
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Athens State University, Athens |
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Auburn University, Auburn |
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Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman |
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Battle-Friedman House, Tuscaloosa |
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Alabama Constitution Village, Huntsville |
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Alabama Department Of Archives And History, Montgomery |
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Alabama Music Hall Of Fame, Tuscumbia |
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Alabama Sports Hall Of Fame Museum, Birmingham |
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Anniston Museum Of Natural History, Anniston |
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Battleship Memorial Park, USS Alabama, Mobile |
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Berman Museum, Anniston |
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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham |
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Birmingham Museum Of Art, Birmingham |
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Black Heritage Tour, Selma |
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