Find a room at one of the hotels Huntsville Alabama has available and get ready to see the evolution of and industrial city. In 1805, John Hunt was the first settler of the land however he didn’t register his land properly so the area was purchased by Leroy Pope and called Twichenham first. However later on the town was named after the original claims man John Hunt and it was finally incorporated in 1811. The start of the popular needed industries began and grew quickly. Cotton and the railroad is how the city originally made its money.
The city gave some honorable men to the Civil War efforts. Col. Egbert J Jones was from Huntsville as made is name known at the Battle of Manassas which was Bull Run. The fourth Alabama Infantry had some men from this city. They were the first men from Alabama to fight in the war. They were there at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865. Eight generals involved with the war were from Huntsville Alabama. Huntsville did finally become a town of interest in the war when General Ormsby M Mitchel came to cut off the confederate communications done by rail. Huntsville did finally become a operation center for the Union Army.
In modern military times, the city of Huntsville became the home of NASA. Eisenhower made a formal dedication to the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960. This city has been an instrumental part in creating the technology that is used today in the space program. Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist, was brought to the city after WWII through the program called Operation Paperclip, to develop rockets for the Army. They created the Redstone ballistic missile which was modified into Juno I and took the first U.S. satellite and astronauts up into space. So there is so much to see on your visit to Huntsville from cotton picking to rocket blasting, you can’t get bored.