Pioneer John Hunt, for whom the city is named, occupied a cabin alongside a spring here in 1805. A town soon flourished and was the largest in the Alabama Territory by 1819. That year the leaders of the Alabama Territory met here to petition the U.S. Congress to grant Alabama statehood.

The birthplace of Alabama is Constitution Village, an award winning reconstruction of Huntsville as it existed when delegates gathered here in 1819 to write the first state's constitution. There are seven authentically reconstructed 19th Century buildings. At each of these buildings there are interpreters in period clothing which the past to life in the middle of downtown Huntsville.

Visit Early Works Children's Museum, the Alabama Constitution Village and Historic Huntsville Depot.

For more information contact: www.earlyworks.com

Other Things to See and Do

We would like to thank the Huntsville Convention & Visitors Bureau for this information.