"Big Spring International Park, located in the heart of Huntsville's downtown business district next to the County Courthouse and City Hall, is the site where John Hunt founded the city in 1805. The park, covering several city blocks, contains...
"It was here that President James Monroe attended ceremonies admitting Alabama into Statehood in 1819. The mother of seven Governors and Rebel Raider, Gen. John Hunt Morgan, Huntsville is today best known as a center of the nation's guided missile...
"On this campus site once stood the Green Bottom Inn, one of Huntsville's earliest hostelries, noted for its race track. GRAY GANDER, once rated the world's fastest horse and winner of a $20,000 purse (not a small amount in the 1800's), raced and...