Birmingham Landmarks: People and Places of the Magic City
Victoria Myers
Oct 2009 · Arcadia Publishing
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Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birminghams early landmarkstestaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered hereremain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic Citys most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of Americas 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 Worlds Fair and has become one of the states most recognizable monuments.
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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.
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