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Delve into Canterbury
The district Canterbury of Huntsville in Madison County (Alabama) is a district located in United States about 601 mi south-west of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 18°C / 65 °F
Morning Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
Evening Temperature | 16°C / 61 °F |
Night Temperature | 13°C / 56 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 51% |
Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (3 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 99% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
21°C (69 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
19°C (67 °F)
18°C (65 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
18°C (64 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Huntsville Marriott at the Space & Rocket Center
Embassy Suites by Hilton Huntsville Hotel - Spa
Fairfield Inn Huntsville
La Quinta Inn Huntsville Research Park
LA QUINTA INN HUNTSVILLE SPACE CENTER
Candlewood Suites HUNTSVILLE - RESEARCH PARK
Holiday Inn HUNTSVILLE-RESEARCH PARK
SpringHill Suites Huntsville Downtown
Homewood Suites by Hilton Huntsville-Downtown AL
LA QUINTA INN STE MADISON SQUARE
Videos from this area
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AmateurLogic.TV 58: 2013 Huntsville Hamfest
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Eastern League All Stars (Girls 10U) vs Lakewood Game
Eastern League All Stars (Girls 10U) vs Lakewood Feb 19, 2013.
KaBOOM Playground Built In A Day on Holmes Avenue
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Huntsville Police Department's Citizens Academy 1st Session Graduation Ceremony
June 5, 2012 On hand for the Huntsville Police Department's first graduation of its Citizens Academy were Mayor Tommy Battle, City Administrator Rex Reynolds, Chief Lewis Morris, Captain Sherry...
A Smart Place to Live, Work & Play
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Mayor Tommy Battle's State of the City 2012
November 16, 2012 Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle gives his fifth State of the City Address before a crowd of over 1000 at the VBC North Hall. Included in the ...
Meridian Street Reopens with $3.16 million upgrade
September 27, 2012 (Huntsville, AL) - Traffic is flowing freely along Meridian Street today, and retailers and motorists are welcoming a greatly improved roadway. The updated segment of Meridian,...
Shop Local Business
Huntsville Alabama Mayor Tommy Battle encourages people to shop the unique and interesting shops, salons and other specialty stores this holiday season. Mayor Battle held a press conference...
Huntsville, AL Real Estate: 8 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Tell You
http://www.amandahowardrealestate.com/blog/8-ways-to-know-youre-working-with-the-right-agent/ - When purchasing a home, a good broker is a treasured resource -- especially if it's your first...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Von Braun Center
The Von Braun Center (VBC), known as the Von Braun Civic Center (VBCC) until 1997, is a multi-purpose indoor arena, meeting, and performing arts complex, with a maximum arena seating capacity of 10,000, located in Huntsville, Alabama. The original facility debuted in 1975 and has undergone several significant expansions since opening. The VBC, in addition to the arena, features multiple exhibit halls, a concert hall, a playhouse and many other facilities, for meetings and exhibits.
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library is a public, Carnegie library in Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1818, when Alabama was still a part of the Mississippi Territory, it is the oldest continuing library in the state. It was first located in the office of attorney John Nelson Spotswood Jones, in the Boardman Building, which is now a part of Constitution Hall Park.
Five Points Historic District (Huntsville, Alabama)
Five Points Historic District was the third historic district to be designated in Huntsville, Alabama. It features homes built around the turn of the 20th Century in several styles, including California Bungalow, Queen Anne and other modest Victorian styles dating from the late 1890s through the early 1900s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in August 2012.
Goldsmith–Schiffman Field
Goldsmith–Schiffman Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Alabama. From 1934 through 2012, it was used mainly for middle school and high school football. It was also home to the now-defunct Alabama Renegades of the National Women's Football Association.
Huntsville Hospital System
The Huntsville Hospital System also known as Huntsville Hospital is a public, not-for-profit hospital campus consisting of several sites and buildings originating in the downtown area of Huntsville, Alabama. It has some 7,000 employees, 2,000 nurses and 650 physicians. The hospital has no official affiliation with any institution of higher education, and is exclusively a site for clinical rotations for students of the UAB School of Medicine, http://main. uab. edu/uasom/2/show.
WBHP (AM)
WBHP (1230 AM, "The Big Talker") is a news/talk formatted radio station licensed to Huntsville, Alabama. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and serves all of Madison County, Alabama. WBHP programming is simulcast on WHOS (800 AM), 106.5 FM (translator), and WQRV-HD2.
Big Spring Jam
Big Spring Jam was an annual music festival taking place in Huntsville, Alabama. The Jam, which began in 1993, typically took place the fourth weekend in September. From 1993 to 2009, this was a three-day beginning Friday and ending Sunday. The 2011 revival was a two-day event on Friday and Saturday only. It featured acts from all genres of music including local bands, emerging talent, old favorites, and the top artists of the day.
Con†Stellation
Con†Stellation (also written as Con*Stellation) is an annual general-interest science fiction convention held in Huntsville, Alabama. Held annually since 1982, Con†Stellation is hosted by the North Alabama Science Fiction Association.
Greengate School
Greengate School for Dyslexia is a private, non-profit school located in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. Greengate is one of only twelve schools in the nation with an instructional program for dyslexia accredited through the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators. The mission of the school is to educate and support bright children who have specific learning differences in reading, spelling or writing so that they may realize their full potential.
Ed White Middle School
Ed White Middle School is a public 6th through 8th grade middle school in Huntsville, Alabama. It is located at 4800 Sparkman Drive in northwest Huntsville. The school is named for astronaut Edward H. White II, killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy on January 27, 1967. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has strong community ties to the space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary and Virgil I.
WEUP (AM)
WEUP is an urban contemporary gospel formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in North Alabama, United States. WEUP is dubbed "Huntsville's Heritage Station" because it was the first in the region to broadcast an urban format. It has an urban contemporary sister station called WEUP-FM. WEUP is simulcast on WEUV (1190 AM) in Moulton, Alabama.
WHIY
WHIY is an Urban oldies and Blues music formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States. The WHIY call letters were on the co-owned 1190 AM signal until a 2006 re-alignment with co-owned WEUV (originally 1700 AM) and WEUP (originally 1600 AM). In the 1980s, the station aired a country music format. For most of the 2000s, this station's programming had been a simulcast of sister station WEUP.
WTKI
WTKI is a radio station licensed to serve Huntsville, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Christian Voice of Central Ohio, Inc. , although a sale to FRC of Alabama LLC, doing business as "Focus Radio Communications", is currently pending FCC approval. Since November 2009, FRC has operated WTKI under a local marketing agreement, broadcasting a combined news/talk/sports format. Some programming is provided by Fox Sports Radio and Fox Business Network.
Helion Lodge
Helion Lodge #1 is a Masonic lodge in Huntsville, Alabama. It is the oldest lodge of Freemasons in the state. According to Grand Historian Joseph Abram Jackson's Masonry in Alabama, it is "the birthplace of Freemasonry in Alabama. " Helion Lodge is also the common name for the building (actually named Eunomia Hall for Eunomia Chapter #5 Royal Arch Masons who financed its construction), built in 1911, where the lodge meets.
Huntsville High School
Huntsville High School is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.
S. R. Butler High School
S. R. Butler High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.
Lowe Mill
Lowe Mill is an historic old cotton mill of approximately 171,000 sq ft located at 2211 Seminole Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35805. In 1900, Arthur H. Lowe of Fitchburg, Massachusetts formed Lowe Manufacturing Co, and began the building of Huntsville’s fifth textile mill. Lowe Mill opened in 1901 with 25,000 spindles that helped to turn locally-grown cotton into woven cloth. In 1902, Eastern Manufacturing Company built the final large mill in Huntsville, a weaving mill across from Lowe Mill.
Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama)
Lee High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.
Heart of Huntsville Mall
The Heart of Huntsville Mall was a shopping mall located in Huntsville, Alabama. It opened in 1961. The mall was demolished in 2007 to make way for a new $150 million mixed-use development called "Constellation."
Huntsville City Schools
Huntsville City Schools is the school district serving Huntsville, Alabama. As of the 2010-11 school year, the system had 23,374 students and employed 1,738 teachers. The district oversees 53 schools: 23 elementary schools, 9 middle schools, 2 K-8 schools, 7 high schools, 3 special education centers, and 4 magnet schools. The school system finished the 2010 fiscal year with a debt of nearly $20 million the largest of any school system in Alabama by a significant margin.
Southeastern Institute of Technology
Southeastern Institute of Technology (SIT), Huntsville, Alabama, was formed in 1976 as a private, not-for-profit, professional school under the provisions of Title 10 of the Code of Alabama. Its purpose was to provide professional-level continuing education and graduate degree programs in engineering, management, and applied science for career advancement, updating, and redirection.
Dead Children's Playground
Hidden amongst the old beech trees within the limits of Maple Hill Cemetery lies the Dead Children's Playground, which in local stories is said to be haunted by the children buried nearby. Maple Hill Park was founded in 1822 and with its hundreds of acres of land it's the oldest and largest cemetery in Alabama, US. Some people say that it is the spirits of the cemetery's children that come out to play.
J. F. Drake State Technical College
J. F. Drake State Technical College is a community college in Huntsville, Alabama. As of the Fall 2010 semester, Drake State has an enrollment of 1,258 students. The college was founded in 1961 as the Huntsville State Vocational Technical College. In 1966, the school was renamed J. F. Drake State Technical Trade School in honor of Joseph Fanning Drake, a long-serving president of Alabama A&M University. After desegregating in 1967, the school took its current name in 1973.
Huntsville Bible College
Huntsville Bible College is a non-denominational Christian seminary in Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1986, the college offers both associate degrees and bachelor's degrees in Christian Education, Mission and Evangelism, and Pastoral Ministry, as well as a bachelor's in Theology. With 72 students and 13 faculty members, it is one of the smallest post-secondary institutes in Alabama.
Governors Drive (Huntsville)
Governors Drive is a major east–west thoroughfare in Huntsville, Alabama. It follows U.S. Route 431 (US-431) in east Huntsville and State Route 53 (SR-53) in west Huntsville. Governors Drive is one of the main entrance points to the city from the east, carrying on average approximately 35,000 vehicles a day across Monte Sano Mountain.