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In the year 1861, when America was beginning the struggle over Civil War issues, a little town, named Utopia, was started about three miles northeast of the present site of Ariton in Dale County, Alabama is today. This is a story of how the unique town of Arition was formed.

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Christopher Columbus discovers America in 1492. Some historians are beginning to question this date and a stone found in Alabama in 1817 adds to these doubts.

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Inventor of something we use in our cars every time it rains – invented by woman from Alabama, only to never profit from it.

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A fateful conversation between a white southerner named and a former-slave, named took place in 1880 in the little town of Tuskegee, which was the capital of Macon County in Alabama and it started what became Tuskegee University.

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The lyricist of the Alabama State song, Julia Tutwiler was a woman with progressive ideas who contributed much to the education of women and was influential in reforming the penal system in Alabama.

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Trails, paths and even roads in Alabama had a historic path. Roads run quietly through the woods of Alabama but are not often recognized for their history.

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Which city of Alabama was one of the properties on the 1910 version of the board game The Landlord's Game, a precursor of Monopoly? It is the city of Fairhope, originally a single tax town and home of the Jubilee.

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University of Alabama was burned a week before the end of the War between the states – probably because it was a military school at the time. Also discussed the University of Alabama Bottle Corps Band.

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Many people know that Auburn was once called Alabama Polytechnic College at Auburn but they may not know why so I thought I'd share a little history. The idea of Auburn actually began in the town of Glennville, Russell County, Alabama.

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Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States,near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly two miles southeast of Hollywood, Alabama. In ante-bellum days, and in fact up to 1868, Bellefonte was the capital, the pride and glory of Jackson County. It is now a ghost town.

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