Flag:
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.
- Nickname: Yellowhammer State
Alabama Facts and Trivia
- Alabama introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world. The celebration is held on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins.
- Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
- The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.
- 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.
- Montgomery is the capital and the birthplace of the Confederate States of America.
- The Confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861.
- Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.
- The town of Enterprise houses the Boll Weevil Monument
to acknowledge the role this destructive insect played in encouraging
farmers to grow crops other than cotton.
- Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World.
- The Alabama Department of Archives is the oldest state-funded archival agency in the nation.
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