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Saturday July 31st 2010

Posts Tagged ‘lookout mountain’

Alabama Environmental Change-Cutting Green Trees and Moving Mountains!

Alabama Environmental Change-Cutting Green Trees and Moving Mountains!

Another year passes as I ride down the lonely Alabama highway. To my right and to my left I see the huge mountains with rock cliffs lining the tops with blue skies and white clouds above. It is the perfect Alabama spring day and the trees are started to bloom and the birds are flying on their way home. Every year I would see the same [...]

Desoto State Park-Desoto Falls- Lookout Mountain Alabama

Desoto State Park-Desoto Falls- Lookout Mountain Alabama

The year was 1540 and Hernando Desoto and his Army of Spanish Conquistadors were on their way down the ChattoogaRiver heading toward Cedar Bluff, Alabama. On June 4th, 1540 they arrived and camped for almost a month on an island. It was soon named McCoy’s island, ‘Chiaha” was the name given by Desoto’s historians. As they arrived they [...]