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Dec 31, 2007 · After World War II, Huntsville, Ala., was transformed by Wernher von Braun’s rocket program. Now it has one of the country’s highest concentrations of scientists and engineers.
Huntsville was the cotton trading center of the Tennessee Valley during the 1840s and ’50s when planters and merchants originally from Virginia and the Carolinas built impressive town homes. LeRoy Pope, who purchased land at auction and donated land for t he town, originally picked the name Twickenham.
University. In 1954 he accepted a job with Thiokol Chemical Corporation’s Redstone Division and arrived in Huntsville. Dex joined the Huntsville Little Theater, which Nancy Mitchell had founded five years earlier. They were in a play together, and within a year were married. They acted and
The study shows why Huntsville was a prime location for a groundbreaking movement leading to Huntsville being the first desegregated city in the state of Alabama and home to the first desegregated public school system in the “Heart of Dixie”.
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Feb 24, 2022 · Prior to November 25, 1811, Huntsville’s official name was Twickenham. The town’s first man of influence, LeRoy Pope, had named the town Twickenham in honor of his favorite English poet’s hometown. But the fancy pants English name didn’t stick long.
Sep 30, 2020 · Huntsville was first named after a London suburb called Twickenham in 1810. The name lives on in the city’s oldest historic district with most homes dating from 1814 to 1870, including Queen Anne, Greek Revival and Federal styles in 13 blocks.
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Feb 25, 2024 · So, what's the story behind that name? The name suggests an important intersection. Pioneers have been active there since the early 1800s, and the intersecting roads housed a few local businesses, a post office, a general store, and a blacksmith shop.
