A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History

image from Bronze Map: 'King Cotton'
33. King Cotton

Statewide, especially the Black Belt and Tennessee Valley
Because cotton was Alabama's major cash crop from the antebellum period until well into the twentieth century,
Alabama became known as the Cotton State.

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