Six years later, brothers Emanuel and Mayer joined him, and they named the business Lehman Brothers. The Civil War disrupted the Lehmans' business. When the war ended, the brothers moved north and concentrated their operations in New York, where they helped establish the Cotton Exchange. Their thriving business subsequently evolved into today's global financial entity. Other businesses suffered from the effects of the Civil War, but the county's economy began to rebound with the growth of the textile industry and the diversification of agricultural industries.
Montgomery became, and still is, an important processing and shipping center for cotton, dairy , and other farm products. As Montgomery County progressed into the twentieth century, its economy was more and more influenced, strengthened, and given stability by the presence of local, state, and federal government in the capital city, and that continues to be the case. These combined governmental entities provide jobs to almost 25 percent of the work force.
According to Census estimates, the workforce in Montgomery County was divided among the following industrial categories:. It is estimated that about 17 percent of school-age children in Montgomery County attend private schools. Montgomery County is also home to a number of institutions of higher education, including Alabama State University , a historically black institution founded in by former slaves in Marion , Perry County, and relocated to Montgomery in ; Auburn University at Montgomery AUM , a metropolitan campus of Auburn University created by the Alabama Legislature in ; Huntingdon College , a Methodist -affiliated liberal-arts college founded in in Tuskegee and relocated to Montgomery in ; Faulkner University, a Christian liberal-arts school founded in and formerly known as Alabama Christian College; and Jones School of Law, founded in by jurist Walter B.
Montgomery County Map Montgomery County is located in the south-central part of the state within the Coastal Plain physiographic section and encompasses square miles. Montgomery County's main transportation routes are Interstate Highway I, which runs north-south, and I, which runs east-west. Other routes in the county include U. Highways 31, , , 80, and All of the county's major transportation routes run through the city of Montgomery.
Montgomery Regional Airport , located six miles southwest of the city of Montgomery, supports four domestic air carriers and provides facilities for the Alabama Army and Air National Guard. Alabama Department of Archives and History Montgomery County offers numerous recreational and cultural activities.
The city of Montgomery has 19 city parks, including Oak Park, which is home to the W. Gayle Planetarium. Lagoon Park Golf Course is a par championship course that is open year-round.
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. That is the history of Montgomery in a nutshell: often teetering on the edge of chaos and destruction, forever the center of the fight for civil rights and teeming with heroic citizens, fantastic stories and a history that in many ways shaped this country.
This group, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March in March drew more than 80, people to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and brought thousands to Montgomery three weeks later to commemorate King's famous speech in front of Alabama's capital building.
It started in Montgomery 10 years earlier, when a small black woman decided to keep her seat and thumb her nose at Jim Crow. The reaction to this act of defiance led to the day Montgomery bus boycott that forced the city to desegregate its transit system on December 21, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
In , he led a four-day, nationally-publicized march for justice from Selma to Montgomery. About Quizzes.
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