STATE BOARD OF TOURISM: Alabama State Board of Tourism, 532 South Perry Street, Montgomery, 36104, (205) 261-4169
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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Montgomery--State Capitol, White House of the Confederacy, the 1835 home of Jefferson Davis; Birmingham--art museum (Wedgwood collection), iron- and steel-making museum, Redmont Hotel, statue of Vulcan on Red Mountain, Birmingham Zoo; Mobile--Battleship Alabama, Oakleigh (1830 historic mansion/Museum), 4 historic districts, Fort Conde (reconstruction of 1720 settlement), Bellingrath Gardens, Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island beach resorts, Mardi Gras, Historic Homes Tour, Azalea Festival in March; Huntsville--Alabama Space and Rocket Center (space Museum), Twickenham Historic district, 1822 Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens, Kress collection at Museum of Art, Sloss Furnace Museum, Zoo, Botanical Gardens (largest in southeast), Burritt Museum; Decatur--Wheeler Wildlife refuge, Cook's Natural Science Museum; Tuscumbia--Ivy Green (Helen Keller home, biographical play performed in summer).
