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The towns of East Alabama and New Philadelphia joined together to become Montgomery in 1819, the year Alabama became a state. The city of Montgomery was named after Revolutionary War hero Richard Montgomery, who died trying to capture the city of Quebec. Ironically, the county in which the city of Montgomery is located, Montgomery County, was named after Major Lemuel P. Montgomery, of Virginia, who fell at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814.

After achieving statehood, Alabama went through four capitals, before settling on Montgomery. During the Civil War, Montgomery served as the capital of the Confederate States of America.

On March 19, 1910, the Wright Brothers opened the winter home of their flying school in Montgomery. The Wright Brothers were frequent visitors to the city and opened several airfields there, including the airfield that would later become Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.
The city became the first in the US to install electric street cars.

A young man from Mount Olive, near Montgomery, would experience some success with his music locally, but in a brief time he would explode onto the Country Music scene to become its biggest legend, Hank Williams. He died a young man at age twenty-nine while sleeping in the back seat of his powder-blue cadillac, which is on display at the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery. There is also a Hank Williams Boyhood Home Museum in nearby Georgiana.

The pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King, would become the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. The same church is still in operation today.

Old Alabama Town- A place where you can step back in time with restored 19th and 20th century buildings.

The First White House of the Confederacy

Rosa Parks Library and Museum

Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

Fort Toulouse-Jackson Park

Shakespeare Gardens

Montgomery Zoo