Selma, Ala. Daily Photo: lion fountain

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Watery Wednesday, Keepers of the Fountain

If it's Wednesday, it's water that we blog about over at the Watery Wednesday Blog Meme, and I recently found a fountain that I didn't know existed. A few good lions keep this fountain in a subdivision near the Alabama River.

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Selma is among the oldest cities in Alabama and has the largest contiguous historic district. It is known for its Civil War and Civil Rights history. The Battle of Selma was one of the last fought in the War Between the States, and the town was a center for the Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s. Today, with a population of about 20,000, Selma is the largest town in the western Black Belt region. The Black Belt, named for the color of its soil, stretches across Central Alabama from Mississippi to Georgia.