Huntsville, AL Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Many Southern cities aspire to blend the old with the new; few achieve it as dramatically as HUNTSVILLE , a hundred miles south of Nashville just inside the Alabama border. Its sleepy center still recalls the days when it was dominated by cotton merchants and railroad owners, a history absorbingly recounted in the Huntsville Depot Museum , 320 Church St (Tues–Sat 9am–5pm; closed Jan & Feb; $7). Twickenham – the community's original name in 1808, before anti-British sentiment in the run-up to the 1812 War dictated that it should be renamed for its first settler, a Virginian named John … more »