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  • Pisgah
    Pisgah is located in southeastern Jackson County in the northeastern corner of the state. It has a mayor/city...
  • Plan of Civilization
    The plan of civilization was a federal development program created in the 1790s to address the so-called...
  • Plant Communities of Alabama
    Alabama is home to a remarkable diversity of natural environments, extending from the sun-drenched shores...
  • Plantation Agriculture
    Plantation agriculture was a form of large-scale farming that was most prevalent during the colonial...
  • Plantation Architecture in Alabama
    Perhaps no aspect of early American architecture is more charged with emotional symbolism?or more...
  • Pleasant Grove
    Pleasant Grove is located in southwest Jefferson County in the north-central part of Alabama. It has...
  • Poets Laureate of Alabama
    Ten talented writers have served as Alabama's poet laureate since the early 1930s. Nominated by...
  • Political Interest Groups in Alabama
    Special interest groups play a very important role in Alabama politics by representing like-minded private...
  • Pond Spring, The General Joe Wheeler Home
    Pond Spring, the General Joe Wheeler Home, is a historic site in Hillsboro, Lawrence County. The 50-acre...
  • Populism in Alabama
    During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, farmers in Alabama and across the United States...