Mobile is named after the Mauvilla Indians.
Peter Bryce is recognized as the state's first psychiatrist. He was born in 1834 and died in 1892.
The Alabama State Flag was authorized by the Alabama legislature on February 16, 1895.
Hematite is Alabama's official state mineral and is known as oxide of iron (Fe2O3).
The Monarch butterfly (Danaus pleipuss) is the state's official insect.
The star blue quartz is the state's official gemstone.
The Florence Renaissance Faire is the Alabama's official fair.
The pecan is the Alabama's official nut.
People from Alabama are called Alabamians.
On January 11, 1861 Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the Union.
On January 28, 1846 Montgomery was selected as capital of Alabama.
Tallulah Bankhead entertained as a star of stage, screen,
and radio during the 1930s-1950s. She was born in Huntsville in 1902
and died in 1968.
Singer and entertainer Nathaniel Adams (Nat King) Cole
was known as the man with the velvet voice. He was born in Montgomery
in 1919 and died in 1965.
Alabama resident Sequoyah devised the phonetic, written alphabet of the Cherokee language.
The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931. At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours.
Alabama's mean elevation is 500 feet at its lowest elevation point.
Audemus jura nostra defendere is the official state motto. Translated it means "we dare defend our rights."
Washington County is the oldest county in Alabama.
General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians in 1814. Following the event the Native Americans ceded
nearly half the present state land to the United States.
At the Battle of Mobile Bay Admiral David Farragut issued his famous command, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed
ahead." The event occurred on August 5, 1864.
