This photo is from award-winning Alabama photographer Chip Cooper, who spent his early years in Huntsville. He currently lives and works in Tuscaloosa.
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Huntsville's location near the Tennessee River made it a prime spot for the cotton industry which helped stimulate its quick growth. In the 20th Century this same river transported the Saturn V rocket engines that helped send man into space.
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