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Centre is a city in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census , the population was 3,587. [ 2 ] The city is the county seat of Cherokee County.
The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States, [1] [2] founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas, in 1929. By 1955, there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern U.S., most controlled by a loosely knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating using common branding or architecture.
African American hotels, motels, and boarding houses were founded during segregation in the United States, offering separate lodging and boarding facilities for African Americans. The Green Book (1936–1966) was a guidebook for African American travelers and included hotel, motel, and boarding house listings where they could stay.
Centreville is the site of the highest recorded temperature in the state of Alabama, when on September 6, 1925, the temperature reached 112 °F or 44.4 °C. [4] The data below are for the years 1916 to 1974. [5]
Centre Municipal Airport (FAA LID: C22) is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (4 mi, 6 km) east of the central business district of Centre, a city in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. It is owned by the City of Centre.
The A.G. Gaston Motel is a historic building and former motel in Birmingham, Alabama. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1963 during the Civil Rights movement , the Southern Christian Leadership Conference used a room in the hotel as their headquarters, which was later bombed by terrorists.