Birmingham Landmarks

Birmingham Landmarks

People and Places of the Magic City

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Publication Date: 1st October 2009

Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birmingham's early landmarks--testaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered here--remain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic City's most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of America's oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsb... Read More
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Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birmingham's early landmarks--testaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered here--remain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic City's most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of America's oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsb... Read More
Description
Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birmingham's early landmarks--testaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered here--remain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic City's most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of America's oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South at Sloss Furnaces and learn the secrets of Vulcan, who was commissioned for the 1904 World's Fair and has become one of the state's most recognizable monuments.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Landmarks
  • Publication Date: 1st October 2009
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781596297388
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial
    TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Author Bio
Victoria Myers is a freelance writer and editor from Alabama. For the past twenty years, she has been the senior editor at Progressive Farmer Magazine in Birmingham, and has written two popular columns for the magazine. She has also edited Cotton Farming Magazine and has won multiple awards, including Writer of the Year and Story of the Year for the American Agricultural Editors Association.
Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birmingham's early landmarks--testaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered here--remain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic City's most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of America's oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South at Sloss Furnaces and learn the secrets of Vulcan, who was commissioned for the 1904 World's Fair and has become one of the state's most recognizable monuments.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Landmarks
  • Publication Date: 1st October 2009
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781596297388
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial
    TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Victoria Myers is a freelance writer and editor from Alabama. For the past twenty years, she has been the senior editor at Progressive Farmer Magazine in Birmingham, and has written two popular columns for the magazine. She has also edited Cotton Farming Magazine and has won multiple awards, including Writer of the Year and Story of the Year for the American Agricultural Editors Association.