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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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Dallas, Lincoln, Lowe, and Merrimack: The mills that shaped Huntsville’s legacy

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Before the space race brought NASA and a team of German scientists to Huntsville, and before the city became a hub for the defense industry, it was manufacturing that drove the local economy.  Standing at the center of an industrial push by city leaders that began late in the 19th century were the major textile […]

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