Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Ivy Green, her childhood home, which is now a historic site open for tours. She overcame being deaf and blind with help from her teacher Anne Sullivan. Moundville Archaeological Site near Tuscaloosa features remains of a Mississippian culture village from 1000 to 1450 AD. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville allows visitors to see NASA rockets and experience astronaut training.

1. Sweet Home
Alabama
Exploring historical sites throughout the
Yellow Hammer state.

2. Ivy Green is the birthplace and childhood home
of Helen Keller. It was built in 1820. The
house and grounds are open year round for
tours.
Helen Keller was born in 1880. When she was
only 19 months old, she became very sick and
that’s when she became deaf and blind. She
worked with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and
learned to read and write and speak. She became
a famous author and human rights spokesperson.
Tuscumbia:
Helen Keller’s birthplace

3. Moundville is located in the central west portion
of the state near Tuscaloosa. It is an ancient native
American village and burial site inhabited by
Mississippian Indians between 1000 and 1450. It
is the second largest site of Mississippian culture.
By the time the Spanish came to this site in 1540,
it was abandoned.
Today, it is run by the University of Alabama as
an archaeological site and tours are provided
daily.
Moundville
Archaeological Site

4. Sloss Furnace National Historic
Civil Rights Institute Landmark
• The Civil Rights Institute is
an interpretive museum and Sloss Furnace produced iron
research center located in for almost 90 years. It was
the Civil Rights district in opened in 1882 and served as
Birmingham. It is affiliated a major iron producer until
with the Smithsonian 1971. Today it serves as a
Institute in museum and event site.
Washington, D.C. and can
borrow exhibits from them.
Birmingham

5. • The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville was
opened in 1970. It is a museum and camp where visitors
may view some of NASA’s most famous rockets and may
experience what life is like for an astronaut in training.
Huntsville:
U.S. Space and Rocket Center

6. • Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, later known as
Tuskegee Institute, was founded by Booker T. Washington in
1881. His home, “The Oaks,” is open for tours.
• In 1896, George Washington Carver was hired as a professor. He
is very well known for his research with peanuts.
• Because of its aeronautical engineering program, Tuskegee
Institute became home to the Tuskegee Airmen. Over 1,000
African-American pilots were trained there during World War II.
Tuskegee:
Tuskegee Institute

7. • Selma was a very important city during the Civil Rights movement.
The most famous events from this time were the Selma to
Montgomery marches in March of 1965. The first march took place
on March 7 and was halted when the marchers were attacked by the
Selma police. The second march took place on March 9. Because of
a restraining order, the march organizers decided to only crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge and did not go all the way to Montgomery.
Due to extensive media coverage and public outrage over the use of
violence against the nonviolent marchers, the third march, which
began on March 21, successfully made it to Montgomery on March
24.
Selma

8. First Capitol of the
Rosa Parks Museum Confederacy
• The Rosa Parks museum is home to an
extensive collection of artifacts from the • Montgomery became the first
Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott Capitol of the Confederacy from
began when Rosa Parks refused to give up February 4, 1861 to May
her seat on a bus to a white man and was
subsequently arrested. The boycott lasted for 21, 1861.
over a year and ended when the Supreme • The First White House of the
Court ruled that the Alabama segregation
laws for buses to be unconstitutional. Confederacy and home of
• The museum offers visitors a chance to President Jefferson Davis, is open
travel back into the past on bus time as free museum.
machines and where they are witness to
many historical events surrounding civil
rights in America.
Montgomery

9. • Fort Morgan is a star-shaped fort built in 1834 to protect
Mobile Bay.
• Its most famous battle took place during the Civil War on
August 5, 1964. The Union army surrounded and took the fort
by siege. The fort was surrendered on August 23rd.
• Today the fort hosts tours, reenactments, and even is home to
bird watching and butterfly migration.
Mobile:
Battle of Mobile Bay