 Montgomery
Information - A short drive to DanShaw Farms
Welcome to City of
Montgomery, Alabama.
Montgomery (IPA: /məntˈgəmɜriː/)
is the capital and second most populous city in the Southern
U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery
County.[2] It is located southeast of the center of the
state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. The city population was
201,568 as of the 2000 census.[3] Montgomery is the primary
city of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area, which
had a 2000 population of 346,528.[4]
The city was incorporated in 1819, as a merger of two towns
situated along the Alabama River. It became the state
capital in 1846. In February 1861, Montgomery was selected
as the first capital of the Confederate States of America,
until the seat of government moved to Richmond, Virginia in
May of that year[5]. During the mid-20th century, Mongtomery
was a primary site in the African-American Civil Rights
Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma
to Montgomery marches[5].
Today, in addition to housing many Alabama government
agencies, Montgomery has a large military presence due to
Maxwell Air Force Base[6], public universities Alabama State
University and Auburn University-Montgomery, high-tech
manufacturing including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing
Alabama[7], and cultural attractions like the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.[8]
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