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District of Montgomery
Alabama - United States

Civil Rights Memorial

The Civil Rights Memorial is a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama to 40 people who died in the struggle for the equal and integrated treatment of all people, regardless of race, during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The names included belong to those who died between 1954 and 1968. Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U.S.

Located at 32.3763, -86.3033 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama State University

Alabama State University, founded 1867, is a historically black university located in Montgomery, Alabama. ASU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Located at 32.364, -86.295 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Maxwell Air Force Base

Maxwell Air Force Base, officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, US. It was named in honor of Second Lieutenant William C. Maxwell, a native of Atmore, Alabama.

Located at 32.3792, -86.3625 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium

Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium is the home of the Montgomery Biscuits of the Southern League. The minor league baseball ballpark opened in Montgomery, Alabama in 2004. It is built into the Riverfront Inn and has a total capacity of 7,000, including general-admission lawn seating.

Located at 32.3821, -86.3106 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Minor league baseball venues, Baseball venues in Alabama, Sports venues in Montgomery, Alabama

Troy University at Montgomery

Troy University at Montgomery is a satellite campus of Troy University and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. The campus is located in the western part of downtown, and includes the Rosa Parks Museum and Library, the Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts, and portions of the historic Bell Building. The university also operates the W.A. Gayle Planetarium in Oak Park. The campus has its roots in extension courses offered at Maxwell Air Force Base in the 1950s.

Located at 32.3758, -86.3111 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Dunn–Oliver Acadome

The Dunn–Oliver Acadome is a 7,400-seat multi-purpose arena in Montgomery, Alabama. Opened in 1992, it is home to the Alabama State Hornets basketball team of Alabama State University. From its opening until May 2008, it was named the Joe L. Reed Acadome, after Dr. Joe L. Reed, who played a significant, high profile leadership role at ASU.

Located at 32.3619, -86.2932 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama House of Representatives

The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal amount of districts, with each constituency containing at least 42,380 citizens. There are no term limits in the House. The House is also one of the five lower houses of state legislatures in the United States that is elected every four years.

Located at 32.3778, -86.3003 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama Senate

The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state, with each district containing at least 127,140 citizens. Similar to the lower House, the Senate serves both without term limits and with a four-year term The Alabama State Senate meet at the State House in Montgomery.

Located at 32.3767, -86.2989 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of an elected Chief Justice and eight elected Associate Justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is housed in the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama. The Governor of Alabama may fill vacancies when they occur for the remainder of unexpired terms. The current partisan line-up for the court is all Republican.

Located at 32.3768, -86.3043 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama State House

The Alabama State House is a state government building in Montgomery, Alabama. It houses several state agencies, most notably the Alabama Senate and the Alabama House of Representatives.

Located at 32.377, -86.2994 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Sidney Lanier High School

Sidney Lanier High School is a public high school located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.

Located at 32.356, -86.31 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Fairchild Memorial Hall

Fairchild Memorial Hall houses the Air University (AU) library at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The premier library in the United States Department of Defense, the AU Library holds especially strong collections in the fields of warfare, aeronautics, United States Air Force and DOD operations, military sciences, international relations, military education, leadership and management. Named for General Muir S.

Located at 32.3853, -86.3451 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Air Command and Staff College

The Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) is located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and is the United States Air Force's intermediate professional military education (PME) school. It prepares field grade and equivalent officers of all U.S.

Located at 32.384, -86.344 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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St. Jude Educational Institute

St. Jude Educational Institute is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Montgomery, Alabama. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, and was built as "the City of St. Jude" by Father Harold Purcell for the advancement of the Negro people. St. Jude was opened in 1946. It offers a full college preparatory program as well as basic skills and trade programs at night for adults. During the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, the march camped on the St. Jude campus.

Located at 32.353, -86.327 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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WVAS

WVAS is a jazz-music formatted radio station in the Montgomery, Alabama, market licensed to the Alabama State University. WVAS is a member-supported non-commercial, educational station featuring news and other programming from National Public Radio and Public Radio International. WVAS began broadcasting on June 15, 1984 from the fifth floor of the Levi Watkins Learning Center. Two years later, the station moved to its current location at Thomas Kilby Hall.

Located at 32.366, -86.294 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Mount Zion AME Zion Church (Montgomery, Alabama)

The Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, also known as the Mount Zion AME Zion Church Memorial Annex, is a historic church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Located on 467 Holt Street, it was built in 1899 and extensively remodeled in 1921. In 1955 the Montgomery Improvement Association, who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was formed in the building. During the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, marchers rested at the church on their way to the Capitol.

Located at 32.3683, -86.3206 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Old Alabama Town

Old Alabama Town is a collection of restored 19th and 20th century structures reflecting the lives of the people who settled and developed central Alabama. It stretches along six blocks in the heart of historic downtown Montgomery, Alabama, depicting a cross-section of architecture, history and lifestyles from an elegant townhouse to rural pioneer living.

Located at 32.3814, -86.3033 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Loveless Academic Magnet Program

Loveless Academic Magnet Program (LAMP) is a magnet high school located in Montgomery, Alabama. It has a student body of around 400. LAMP was formerly housed at Sidney Lanier High School, but moved into the former site of Loveless Elementary in 1999. A 9th grade class was added in 2001. In 2008, it was named #20 on U.S. News & World Report's Gold Medal List and #56 in Newsweek's list of the top 1000 high schools in the United States.

Located at 32.3656, -86.3235 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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George Washington Carver High School (Montgomery, Alabama)

George Washington Carver High School is a public high school in Montgomery, Alabama. It is a part of the Montgomery Public Schools system. The groundbreaking for the new Caver High School was held April 2, 2008 at the new construction site just off Oak Street across from the existing school. Its design utilizes modern advances in architecture, construction and technology. The $36 million school is the first of six new schools scheduled in the first phase of the MPS building program.

Located at 32.3503, -86.325 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama)

The First Baptist Church on North Ripley Street in Montgomery, Alabama is a historic landmark. Founded in downtown Montgomery in 1867 as one of the first black churches in the area, it provided an alternative to the second-class treatment and discrimination African-Americans faced at the other First Baptist Church in the city. It also had a role in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Located at 32.3819, -86.2986 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama. It was created by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901 with a primary mission of collecting and preserving artifacts relating to the history of the state. It was the first publicly funded, independent state archives agency in the United States. It subsequently became a model for the establishment of archives in other states.

Located at 32.3756, -86.3003 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College is a community college in Montgomery, Alabama. The college awards associate's degrees and certificates in a variety of healthcare and technical disciplines. The current iteration of the college was formed in 2001 by the merger of Trenholm State Technical College (founded 1963) with John M. Patterson Technical School (founded 1961).

Located at 32.3503, -86.3431 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Alabama Judicial Building

The Alabama Judicial Building, formally known as the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building, is a state government building in Montgomery, Alabama. It houses several state judicial agencies, most notably the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. It is the first state court building in the United States to house all three courts under one roof. Additionally, it houses the State Law Library.

Located at 32.3767, -86.3044 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Alabama Forestry Commission

The Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is the forest management agency for the U.S. state of Alabama. It was created as a state agency by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1924. Its general mission is protecting Alabama's forests from harm, assisting landowners practice responsible forest management on their private property, and educating the general public about the value of Alabama's forests. It established the Alabama Champion Tree Program in 1970 and continues to maintain it.

Located at 32.38, -86.3019 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Troy University at Dothan

Troy University at Dothan is a satellite campus of Troy University and is located in Dothan, Alabama. The campus has its roots in extension courses offered at Fort Rucker, Alabama in the 1950s. A separate Troy State College teaching center was established at Fort Rucker in the 1960s, which led to the creation of the present-day Dothan Campus. In 1982, the Montgomery and Dothan campuses were granted independent accreditation, and the Troy State University System was formed.

Located at 32.3758, -86.3111 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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