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

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 […]

Rocket City Rewind: The Story of Albert Russel Erskine

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 […]