Excerpt from Historical and Statistical Review and Mailing and Shipping Guide of North Alabama: Embracing the Cities of Birmingham, Anniston, Gadsden, Huntsville, Decatur, Tuscaloosa and Bessemer, With Their Manufacturing and Mercantile Industries, History Progress, and Development and Sketches of Public and Private Citizens This much we have said by way of introduction, and we now ask a careful perusal of the detailed descriptive accounts of the live, progressive cities of North Alabama, for, in setting forth the industrial advantages of each, we discuss the claims of the entire section as a whole. The succeeding pages present an array of facts, figures and illustrations which is astonishing. No stranger can peruse the subjoined record of progress without wonder, and no Alabamian can contemplate it without experiencing a pardonable pride in his State and feeling stimulated to renewed energy in the great struggle for her ultimate supremacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.