Alabama

Our route through Alabama.

We toured Helen Keller's birthplace and memorial.

  It is part of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area.

This buffet, part of the Kellers' dining room, was appraised

by the Antique Road Show folks at $18,000.

In the museum.

Cold Water Falls in Tuscumbia. 

 It is the largest natural stone man-made falls.

Over 4 million gallons of water flows over the falls daily.

The spring was on Andrew Jackson's military road

 and The Trail of Tears.

Cold Water Stage Coach stop.

About half way between Tuscumbia and Tuscaloosa

 is a sandstone and iron ore double arch natural bridge.

Indian head profile??

I took the picture because of the lighting

 and its spotlighting the two spider webs.

Near Selma is the first state capital.  (1820-1826)  

 It was washed away in a flood long ago

 and is now a state historical and archaeological site.

At the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers.

Slave quarters--the manor house is gone.

There was a POW camp here. 

 Now, a nearly forgotten graveyard.

The beginning of Selma to Montgomery National Historical Trail.

This Center is at the base of the Edmund Pettus bridge,

 where Bloody Sunday began.

The bridge over the Alabama River.

Old Memorial.

Brown Chapel, where the march began 

and Martin Luther King joined.

The Loundes County Interpretive Center (Selma to Montgomery NHT).

This site is located at "Tent City". 

 A tent city that housed African Americans that were fired

 and kicked off white-owned property for trying to register to vote.

Museum depiction of the Selma to Montgomery March.

Arriving in Tallahassee, FL, soon to visit our son, 

Brian, and store the motor home for a while.

Ocala home soon after the Tallahassee visit.

Likely to be lots of weeds to pull, 

between pickleball games.