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One-tank trip: Montgomery [AJC.com]
Stand at Court Square in downtown Montgomery and the entire history of the Southeast surrounds you. An 1885 fountain allows an artesian spring to bubble up in the center of the traffic circle at Court Square.The spring was probably used by the Creek Indians who lived here before the 1814 treaty that gave their lands to Alabama. A historical marker on Court Square recalls the slave market that once stood here. The telegraph that started the Civil War — authorizing Charleston, S.C., to remove Union forces from Fort Sumter — was sent from a building on Court Square. In 1866, the Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated here. The bus stop where Rosa Parks boarded that fateful day in 1955 is now in a small park on Court Square. And a few blocks up Goat Hill is the state Capitol, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of people completed their civil rights march from Selma. Montgomery doesn't try to hide its past. Memorials, tourist sites and a narrated trolley ride tell the stories.
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