Franklin County occupies Alabama’s northwestern border with Mississippi and follows a simple transportation pattern: Russellville and U.S. 43 form the […]
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Fayette County is a low-density northwestern Alabama county shaped by U.S. 43, small manufacturing centers, forest land, and the free-flowing
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Etowah County became an industrial center because waterways, mineral resources, rail lines, and highways all converged around Gadsden. The county
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Escambia County developed along two different transportation systems. Brewton became a lumber and railroad center on the eastern side, while
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Elmore County is one of the primary suburban-growth areas north of Montgomery. Millbrook, Coosada, Deatsville, and the Wetumpka area have
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Fort Payne’s location in Big Wills Valley gives DeKalb County a strong north-south spine between Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain.
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Dallas County is one of the clearest examples of Alabama’s Black Belt history in a single map area. Cotton plantations,
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Railroads and longleaf pine shaped the settlement pattern of Covington County. Andalusia became the courthouse and commercial center, while Opp,
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Coosa County has no large city and no interstate corridor. Its map is defined instead by scattered rural communities, three
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