Alabama Relocation Real Estate and Realtor Referral Network.

Alabama means "tribal town" in the language of the local Creek Indians

A crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white field, patterned after the Confederate Battle Flag, and adopted in 1895. The bars forming the cross must not be less than six inches broad and must extend diagonally across the flag from side to side. Flag adopted 1895. Alabama became a state December 14, 1819 and it was the 22nd state.

10 Largest cities in Alabama (2003): Birmingham, 236,620; Montgomery, 200,123; Mobile, 193,464; Huntsville, 164,237; Tuscaloosa, 79,294; Hoover, 65,070; Dothan, 60,036; Decatur, 54,239; Auburn, 46,923; Gadsden, 37,619

Number of counties in Alabama: 67

Largest county in Alabama by population: Jefferson, 658,495 (2004)

Largest county in Alabama by area: Baldwin, 1,596 sq mi.

Alabama State Parks: 22 (45,614 ac.)
Alabama Land Area: 50,744 sq mi. (131,427 sq km) (30th)

Alabama Geographic Center: In Chilton Co., 12 mi. SW of Clanton

Alabama Population: (2004 est) 4,530,182 (#23)

Spanish explorers are believed to have arrived at Mobile Bay in 1519, and the territory was visited in 1540 by the explorer Hernando de Soto. The first permanent European settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1702. The British gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris but had to cede almost all the Alabama region to the U.S. and Spain after the American Revolution. The Confederacy was founded at Montgomery in Feb. 1861, and, for a time, the city was the Confederate capital.

During the later 19th century, the economy of the state slowly improved with industrialization. At Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington, Dr. George Washington Carver carried out his famous agricultural research.

In the 1950s and '60s, Alabama was the site of such landmark civil-rights actions as the bus boycott in Montgomery (1955?56) and the "Freedom March" from Selma to Montgomery (1965).

Alabama Agriculture: Poultry and eggs, cattle, nursery stock, peanuts, cotton, vegetables, milk, soybeans.

Alabama Industry: Paper, lumber and wood products, mining, rubber and plastic products, transportation equipment, apparel. Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel. It is also the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products.

CENTURY 21 Amy Banks Realty, Inc.
Selling Lake Martin Alabama, a retirement and recreation mecca.  We also sell properties in the cities of Alexander City, Dadeville and Jacksons Gap.  Come live and play with us on this 45,000 acre pristine paradise where boating, sailing and skiing are an everyday event.

 
RE/MAX Realty
Sussex Delaware
Real Estate Sales