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View of Huntsville Hilton from Big Spring Park
Back: THE HUNTSVILLE HILTON, 401 Williams Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama 35801, Phone: (205) 533-1400
Located adjacent to the Von Braun Civic Center. 288 luxurious guest rooms, 8 beautifully appointed meeting rooms designed especially for conventions, capable of handling groups from 10 to 900 persons. Two exciting lounges and two excellent restaurants. Outdoor pool surrounded by lovely native flowers, -
View of Downtown Huntsville from Big Spring Park
Back: VIEW OF DOWNTOWN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.
Looking from Big Springs Park - Seen are the new buildings in the Municipal Center and the Madison County Court House. -
Big Spring Park
Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Alabama
Back: THE BIG SPRING, HUNTSVILLE, ALA.
Located in the heart of town at the base of a rock wall of some sixty feet. This spring has an output of approximately 23,000,000 gallons daily. -
Big Spring Park
Back: BIG SPRINGS PARK, Huntsville, Alabama, "Space City. USA"
Historic and popular Big Springs Park shown with the new skyscrapers in downtown Huntsville in the background. -
The Big Spring
Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Alabama
Back: THE BIG SPRING, HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Located in the heart of town at the base of a rock wall of some sixty feet. This spring has an output of approximately 23,000,000 gallons daily. It is a world famous landmark. -
The Big Spring
Back: The Big Spring - a great watering spot for Indians and later pioneers heading West - was the reason for HUNTSVILLE'S founding more than 150 years ago. 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 development program at Redstone Arsenal. -
The Big Spring
Back: THE BIG SPRING, Huntsville, Alabama. Located near the center of town, this spring furnished all the city's water supply from its earliest days until recent years. It formed the nucleus for the South's first - and the nation's second - public waterworks system. Now world famous. -
The Big Spring
Front: A Close Up View of the Big Spring, Huntsville, Alabama
Capacity of Spring 24,000,000 Gallons Daily
Back: John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, in 1805, was the first white man to build his hut on the banks of Biq Spring, and it was from this pioneer that Huntsville takes its name. -
The Big Spring
Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. -
The Big Spring
Front: A close-up View of the Big Spring, Daily capacity 24,000,000 Gallons, Huntsville, Alabama.
Back: View of the Big Spring from which Huntsville secures its water supply.