Rocket City Rewind: The Humes Legacy in Huntsville’s Industrial Dawn

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It is often determined that visionaries throughout history were ahead of their time, but Captain Milton Humes and his wife were very much “of their time” as Huntsville’s elite. One of the most prominent attorneys in Alabama and known throughout the South, the Captain became a leading player in creating the North Alabama Improvement Company […]

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Rocket City Rewind: Before Toyota — The Car That Almost Put Huntsville on the Map

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Long before Toyota and Mazda established manufacturing plants in Huntsville, the state’s first automaker was producing cars at Redstone Arsenal. The Keller Motors Corporation (1947-1950), named after its president and former Studebaker executive George Keller, had designs on capturing an expanding market for station wagons as people began moving to the suburbs post-World War II […]

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Rocket City Rewind: The Story of Albert Russel Erskine

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Albert Russel Erskine Sr., born in 1871 into a family with Dutch roots that settled in Huntsville around the turn of the 19th century, made his mark before committing suicide in 1933 under intense financial stress.  Before he left his troubles behind, he was regarded as one of the nation’s most prominent industrial magnates of […]

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