Assisted Living in Montgomery, AL

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Facts about Montgomery

Montgomery is also known as: Montgomery County / Montgomery city and MONTGMOMERY .

Montgomery has been featured in movies like: Big Fish (2003), Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963), Doxology (2007), and The Long Walk Home (1990).

And some of the notable people born here have been: Artur Davis (politician and attorneys in the united states), Milford Brown (american football player), Fred Weary (american football player), Monreko Crittenden (american football player), and Robert Johnson (american football player).

Montgomery is home to the following sports teams: Alabama State Hornets men's basketball.

And featured attractions of Montgomery: Maxwell Air Force Base, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Air War College, Mount Zion AME Zion Church, and Building 800-Austin Hall.

Montgomery is represented by Mayor Todd Strange.

Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for Richard Montgomery, it is located on the Alabama River, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 Census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764. It is the second-largest city in Alabama, after Birmingham, and the 103rd largest in the United States. The Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area had a 2010 estimated population of 374,536. It is the fourth-largest in the state and 136th among United States metropolitan areas.The city was incorporated in 1819, as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River. It became the state capital in 1846, representing the shift of power to the south-central area with the growth of cotton as a commodity crop of the Black Belt and Mobile's rise as a mercantile port. In February 1861, Montgomery was selected as the first capital of the Confederate States of America, until the seat of government moved to Richmond, Virginia, in May of that year. During the mid-20th century, Montgomery was a major site of events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches.In addition to housing many Alabama government agencies, Montgomery has a large military presence due to Maxwell Air Force Base; public universities Alabama State University, Troy University and Auburn University at Montgomery; private colleges/universities Faulkner University and Huntingdon College; high-tech manufacturing, including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama; and cultural attractions such as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.Two ships of the United States Navy have been named after the city, including USS Montgomery (LCS-8).Montgomery has won several national awards including being voted Best Historic City by USA Today, being named an All-America City in 2014 by the National Civic League, being named a "Top City For Job Growth" in 2014 by ziprecruiter.com, and being named the happiest city in Alabama. Montgomery has also been recognized nationally for its successful, and ongoing downtown revitalization and new urbanism projects with Montgomery having been one of the first cities in the nation to implement Smart Code Zoning.

Population shifts in Montgomery