The Supreme Court and State Law Library, founded in 1828, owns a rare book collection containing works printed as early as 1605.

A Scots trader named James McQueen settled there in 1716. He married a high-status woman in the Coushatta or Alibamu tribe. Their children were considered Muskogean, as both tribes had a matrilineal system of property and descent, meaning the children were considered born into their mother's clan, and gained their status from her people.

It became the state capital in 1846, representing the shift of power to the south-central area of Alabama with the growth of cotton as a commodity crop of the Black Belt and the rise of Mobile as a mercantile port on the Gulf Coast.

198 men died at the Montgomery Military Prison from April to December of 1862. Today, most of those Union POW graves have been moved to the National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia. But some say, in the early morning hours, moans and screams can still be heard from within the stadium.

Pietrasanta is a town on the coast of northern Tuscany in Italy, in the province of Lucca. The town has Roman origins and part of the Roman wall still exists.