Alabama Bronze Map - Montgomery, AL - 3D Map Models of Our World and Beyond on Waymarking.com

The Alabama Department of Archives and History building is located across Washington Street from the side of the Alabama State Capitol Building. As one moves up the first flight of steps, there is this huge bronze map of Alabama with 85 images of cultural, historical or geographical items as well as the topographical features from Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico to the mountains in the northeast corner of the state. The web page listed below has links to all 85 items, giving the history of the item. For example, number 37 is "Wright Bothers' First Flying School, 1910" which was located northwest of the city of Montgomery. The site is a waymark (WMDGZ0).

According to the Archives web page: "Gregg LeFevre and Jennifer Andrews, with the assistance of Jose Marti and Bill Muller, and Mary Walton Upchurch, Landscape Architect, Inc., developed the final presentation of the Bronze Map. Images on the Bronze Map were chosen by ADAH staff from a list of images suggested by Alabamians from across the state. The map was commissioned by an anonymous donor in memory of Isidor Weil. It was dedicated December 14, 2006."

It is difficult to get a perspective of the map without walking on it. I hope the photos will do it some justice. The following list of the images comes from the web page:

1. Damn the Torpedoes--Full Speed Ahead!
2. Alabama Beaches
3. Grand Bay National Wildlife Reserve
4. America's First Mardi Gras
5. Iberville and Bienville Found Mobile, 1702
6. Attack on Fort Mims, 1813
7. Surveying Ellicott's Line, 1799
8. Wiregrass
9. Alabama Peanuts
10. Basilosaurus cetoides Swam Here 35 Million Years Ago
11. To Kill A Mockingbird
12. Forest Products
13. Rattlesnake Rodeo
14 Boll Weevil Monument
15. Fort Rucker: Home of Army Aviation
16. St. Stephens, U.S. Flag First Raised in Alabama, 1799
17. Salt Works
18. Shipping Cotton to the World
19. Longleaf Pine, Alabama State Tree
20. Hank Williams
21. Pioneer Life
22. Home of George and Lurleen Wallace
23. Alabama's First Commercial Oil Well
24. Gee's Bend Quilters
25. Sharecropping
26. Bird Dog Field Trial Monument
27. Lake Eufaula
28. State Song
29. Black Belt Plantations
30. Rooster Bridge
31. Vine and Olive Colony: Alabamians Welcome French Refugees, 1817
32. Catfish Farming
33. King Cotton
34. Cahaba, First State Capital
35. 1965 Voting Rights March
36. Daniel Pratt's Cotton Gin Factory
37. Wright Bothers' First Flying School, 1910
38. Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
39. First Capital of the Confederacy, 1861
40. Fort Toulouse / Fort Jackson
41. Tuskeegee Institute
42. Auburn University
43. Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
44. The Federal Road Opens Alabama to Pioneers
45. Tenn-Tom Waterway Connects Tennessee Valley to the Gulf
46. Moundville Mississippian Indian Civilization, 1000-1450 A. D.
47. University of Alabama
48. Automobile Manufacturing
49. Cahaba Lily
50. Chilton County Peaches
51. Alabama Railroads
52. Stars Fell on Mrs. Hodges, 1954
53. DeSoto Explores Alabama, 1540
54. Final Battle of the Creek War, 1814
55. Textile Industry
56. Birthplace of Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
57. Grist Mills
58. Pioneer Dogtrot Cabin
59. Coal Mining
60. Vulcan: Symbol of Alabama's Iron Industry
61. Abernathy, King, Shuttlesworth: Civil Rights Leaders
62. Medical Research
63. Talladega Speedway
64. Highest Point in Alabama
65. Annie's Town
66. John H. Bankhead: Father of the U.S. Highway System
67. Traditional Pottery
68. Winston Follows Its Own Path
69. Ave Maria Grotto
70. Covered Bridges
71. Emma Sansom Guides General Forrest
72. Cornwall Furnaces Ironworks, 1862-1875
73. Birthplace of Jesse Owens
74. Alabama State Bank Building
75. Eagles Return to Lake Guntersville
76. Shape-Note Singing
77. Sock Capital of the World
78. Sequoyah: Creator of the Cherokee Syllabary
79. Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan -- W-a-t-e-r
80. W.C. Handy Plays the Blues
81. Wilson Dam: Taming the Tennessee River
82. Fiddling Traditions
83. Rocket City
84. First State Constitution
85. Russell Cave: 10,000 Years of Human Habitation

Address and Hours Available to the Public: 624 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36130 Outside, available at all hours Admission Fee (if any): no Interactive Features: no Website for more information: [Web Link]

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