Alabama Facts ….some you may know but some you may not.
Did you know Alabama introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world. The celebration is held on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins. Or did you know the world’s first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.
And that is not all…..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…and Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World one of the reasons being Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
Blount County was created on February 7, 1818 and is older than the state. The word Alabama means tribal town in the Creek Indian language and Montgomery is the capital and the birthplace of the Confederate States of America where the Confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861 .
State insect-Monarch butterfly…state nut-pecan…state gemstone-star blue quartz…state mineral- Hematite oxide of iron.
Now as Admiral David Farragut of the battle of Mobile fame once said “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” Be proud to be called an Alabamian.
