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Here's a sign everyone wants to see in their community.

Scenes from Beautiful Southwest Alabama. Photos by Joe Watts.

Across the United States, heritage tourism is on the rise.  To promote Alabama’s unique blend of Civil Rights history and cultural traditions, Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Tourism are teaming up to develop a Civil Rights Heritage Trail in Alabama.  The project aims to provide tourists with a rich travel experience by allowing access to Alabama’s Civil Rights sites through easy-to-follow routes and the inclusion of unique local restaurants, lodging and cultural amenities.  

The guide will go beyond well-known Civil Rights museums to include many additional sites significant in the struggle for racial equality.  Auburn University staff will work closely with the Alabama Department of Tourism to build on the Department’s current Civil Rights publication.  

The Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation has identified a series of reinforced concrete block billboards that were constructed in 1953 along Florida’s major tourist routes (pre-interstate).  The billboards were designed and patented in 1952 by Cecil Hayden Davis of Springfield Illinois who had also purchased De Leon Springs, a historic tourist attraction here in Florida, that same year.  Sixty of these were built and at least 12 are still extant.  These “outdoor signboards” were designed to be permanent and withstand hurricane force winds. We are trying to find out if anything similar exists in other states.

Sherry Anderson, Architectural Historian
Transportation Compliance Review Program
Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources
 
sanderson@dos.state.fl.us. (800) 847-7278   Toll Free. (850) 245-6437   Fax

Little River Canyon National Preserve. Photo by Joe Watts

Another entry in Beautiful Alabama. Visit the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi. http://www.nps.gov/liri/
Don't forget to send your entries in! info@yourtownalabama.org.

McDill Point, Pinhoti Trail, Talladega National Forest, Cheaha State Park
Photo by Paul Kennedy

Beautiful Alabama Continues. Send your favorite images of Alabama to info@yourtownalabama.org. Make sure to include the location and who took the photo!

Cardiff Cemetery, Brookside, Alabama. photo by Francesca Gross

Enjoy the Annual Five Mile Creek Greenway Festival April 5, 2008. Pageant, Arts & Crafts, Hiking Canoeing, Food, Fishing, Bike Race, Regions 5K Run, Music. Join the fun.
www.brooksidealabama.com