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The name of the park was changed to Mound State Monument and was opened to the public in 1939. During a 1980 break-in at the Erskine Ramsay Archaeological Repository at Moundville, 264 pottery vessels, one-fifth of the vessel collection curated by the Alabama Museum of Natural History, were stolen. The highest-quality specimens were taken.
Built from 1881 to 1882, this is the oldest remaining blast furnace in the state. Its NHL designation represents Alabama's early 20th-century preeminence in the production of pig iron and cast iron, an example of a post-Civil War effort to industrialize the agrarian South. [44] 35 † Swayne Hall, Talladega College: Swayne Hall, Talladega College
In the hundred years prior to Giza—beginning with Djoser, who ruled from 2687 to 2667 BC, and amongst dozens of other temples, smaller pyramids, and general construction projects—four other massive pyramids were built: the Step pyramid of Saqqara (believed to be the first Egyptian pyramid), the pyramid of Meidum, the Bent Pyramid, and the ...
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history online older edition; online 2018 edition; Alabama State Department of Education. History of Education in Alabama (Bulletin 1975, No. 7.O) Online free; Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making of an American State (2016) 264pp excerpt
More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since disappeared, a new study suggests. New research could solve the mystery behind ...
The plant was closed, and the newly built houses stood unoccupied. In 1921, Henry Ford offered to buy the plants and village with plans to develop it into an industrial complex. [ 5 ] Until 1933, only a small number of the houses were occupied, all by Alabama Power Company workers. [ 7 ]
The change of the angle have been made as a stability precaution in reaction to a catastrophic collapse of the Meidum pyramid while it was still under construction. 29°47′25″N 31°12′33″E / 29.79028°N 31.20917°E / 29.79028; 31
Site Image State Description; Adams site: Kentucky Located near Hickman in Fulton County, Kentucky, it consists of a 7.25-hectare (17.9-acre) village area built over the remains of a Late Woodland village with a central group of platform mounds around a central plaza and another smaller plaza area to the southwest of the largest mound, occupied during the Medley(1100 to 1300 CE) and Jackson ...