Back: Brush Goat at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum. Historic breeds of animals typical on the farms of North Alabama in 1900 bring to life the experiences of our rural ancestors. The term Brush Goat simply refers to a mixture of two or more breeds.
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.
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: 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: 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.
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: 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.
