Back: ROCKET CITY ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION, MONTE SANO STATE PARK, HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA Huntsville it the home of Redstone Arsenal, the world's largest rocket and guided missile research and development center.
Front: Sunset on Monte Sano, Huntsville, Ala. Back: For a breathtaking view, come to Monte Sano State Park at sunset. The scenes from the mountain are beautiful in the day, too.
Back: Smith-Williams Log House at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum (1900). The Smith-Williams house originally stood on the eastern base of Monte Sano Mountain. It is a typical home of a subsistence farm family in the hills of North Alabama in 1900.
Back: Gardiner Cabin at Burritt on the Mountain - a Living Museum (1850). The Gardiner Cabin originally stood in southern Madison County near the Tennessee River. A small one-room cabin, it is typical of slave housing in the Tennessee Valley.
Back: Arch at entrance to Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum, Built by Dr. William Henry Burritt as the entrance to his retirement estate completed in 1938.
Back: Sorghum Furnace at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum. Southern farmers boiled down the juice from their sorghum cane crops in furnaces to make a pure, amber colored syrup. In the late 19th century, sorghum was the most popular sweetener in the South.
