Black Belt Transformations

If you visit the ghost town of Cahawba, you'll find history and geography lessons

 posted near the visitor center. Dallas County is located in the Black Belt region,

 a narrow swath of land across Central Alabama that is named for the color

 of some of its prairie soils. It once was the home of cotton plantations

 but today is known for its catfish and forest industries.

 This and other posters describe the transformations among its people and landscape.

 Old Cahawba Archaelogical Park is open daily from 9-5.

Posted at Our World Tuesday

Old Cahawba Church Ruins

There's not much left of the pre-Civil War Methodist Episcopal Church at Old Cahawba. The ruins are unstable, so please just look , and keep out! Old Cahawba Archeaological Park is the site of Alabama's first capital. It is located at the junction of the Cahaba and Alabama rivers.