This cache starts off my U.S. Flag Series with the state of Alabama.  It is hidden in Lions Park, not too far off a grass path.  Please place back exactly as found

Here we go with our first state...alphabetically.

Alabama

• Alabama introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world. The celebration is held on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins.
• Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World. Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
• Montgomery is the capital and the birthplace of the Confederate States of America.
• Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.
• Baseball player Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron was born in Mobile in 1934.
• Boxer Joe Louis was born in Lexington in 1914. He died in 1981.
• Baseball player Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield in 1931.
• In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart. The surgery occurred in Montgomery.
• Hitler's typewriter survived from his mountain retreat and is exhibited at the Hall of History in Bessemer.
• Mobile is named after the Mauvilla Indians.
• Singer and entertainer Nathaniel Adams (Nat King) Cole was known as the man with the velvet voice. He was born in Montgomery in 1919 and died in 1965.