Click here and join me as I revisit the HAUNTED campground in Tannehill, Alabama! In today’s micro adventure we revisit the haunted campground at Tannehill, State Park outside of Birmingham, Alabama. OK, it’s not haunted …
Click here to see my latest short film where I explore a town founded in 1868! Today’s micro adventure takes us to the beautiful Southern city of Clanton, Alabama, founded in 1868. According to the …
Click here and join me as explore the Clanton, Alabama Peach Park! Peach Park? Yup, it’s a thing! Peach Park is located in Clanton, Alabama between Birmingham and Montgomery. Peach Park over delivered on this …
Click here and join me as I go flying in this HIGH PERFORMANCE airplane! In my latest adventure I go flying in a high performance aircraft, the Cirrus SR 22! The plane with a parachute! …
Click here and get ready to smile! VolksJam vintage VW car show will blow you away! This week’s micro-adventure takes me to an epic vintage Volkswagen car show called VolksJam. VolksJam is packed with Bajas, …
In today’s micro adventure we revisit the haunted campground at Tannehill, State Park outside of Birmingham, Alabama.
OK, it’s not haunted but it was a lot of fun in the spirit of Fall and October.
The Tannehill State Park campground will be fully decorated by about mid October in time for The Halloween Fairyland event scheduled for the last week in October. The more we explored the more we realized how over the top they were with their fall decorations in this Haunted Campground! The Haunted Campground Under Promised but Over Delivered!
I’d highly recommend this fun Haunted Campground at the Tannehill State Park, outside of Birmingham, near McCalla, Alabama.
Today’s micro adventure takes us to the beautiful Southern city of Clanton, Alabama, founded in 1868.
According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama:
Early History
The first seat of Chilton County was located in the town of Grantville, named for Union general and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant. The Grantville courthouse burned in 1870, and the seat was moved to Goose Pond, which was founded sometime in the late antebellum years on the route of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The town was renamed Clanton in 1871 to honor Brig. Gen. James Holt Clanton, a veteran of the Mexican War and the Civil War, in the years when Democrats began to take control of the state from Reconstruction Republicans. Alfred Baker, son of early pioneers, was instrumental in the development of both Clanton and Chilton County. During his brief stint as a Republican in the legislature (he later became a Democrat), Baker helped write legislation creating Baker County in 1868, which was renamed Chilton County in 1874. Baker had numerous business interests in Clanton, including stores, a stable, a storehouse, and a hotel, and he also donated land for the courthouse. A brick courthouse was constructed in 1896; it burned in 1917 and was rebuilt in 1918. The present courthouse was built in 1960-61.
Construction of Lay Dam
The town prospered in the early decades of the twentieth century from the construction of the Lay Dam and Mitchell Dam hydroelectric projects and later from the arrival of the textile industry, which boosted the local population and boomed during World War II. During the Great Depression, a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp was established in the town whose participants engaged in soil conservation programs, such as building retention ponds and drainage ditches. The CCC camp was repurposed in May 1943 to house German and Italian prisoners of war. It closed in September 1945. Clanton is well known for its 120-foot high, 500,000-gallon water tower constructed and painted in the shape of a giant ripe peach, which celebrates the importance of the peach industry to the county; it was built in 1994.
Today I explore Fairfield, Alabama as I go Urban Hiking.
Fairfield, Alabama is just outside Birmingham and is a town that has seen new growth but still has many vacant buildings.
On this Urban Hike, as I explore Fairfield I come upon two pitbulls just wandering around on their own. Never created an issue just not something I like to encounter while walking the streets of Fairfield, Alabama.
Today’s motorcycle adventure takes me into the heart of Bessemer, Alabama at Sunset.
Bessemer at sunset is a beautiful place especially when I do it on my motorcycle. Everyone in Bessemer, Alabama seems to be friendly as I wave they wave back.
In this motorcycle adventure in Bessemer, Alabama I’ll show you the neighborhoods, downtown and more.
So I hope you enjoy today’s motorcycle adventure into Bessemer, Alabama!
