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The most haunted place in Cherokee County, AL

Two tragic deaths put the Rock Run Furnace at the top of the list for most haunted places in Cherokee County, AL.

On July 1, 1915, statewide prohibition went into effect in Alabama, for the second time, five years before the federal prohibition amendment.

Dr. William Henry Burritt left his mountaintop estate to Huntsville, AL in 1955, and in doing so, provided that city’s first public museum.

Russell Sanders began harness racing while still in high school and won his first race in 1915. He won 1,116 first places.

W.C. Handy was quick to acknowledge that he did not invent the blues, but merely transcribed them and presented them to a worldwide audience.