Montgomery

Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, is on the left bank of the Alabama River, some 400 miles above Mobile. It contains a fine state-house and a handsome Masonic hall, and has a large number of manufactories, including foundries, flour-mills, steam cotton-gins, a cotton factory, and oil-works. Several railways meet here, and the river is navigable for steamboats all the year round; an active trade is carried on, and large quantities of cotton, especially, are shipped. Montgomery became capital of Alabama in 1847, and was for a time the capital of the Confederate States. Pop. (1880) 16,713; (1890) 21,790.