Winston
Winston County is named in honor of the first governor of Alabama to be born in the state. This mountainous county is home to the William Bankhead National Forest and the Sipsey Wilderness, the state’s first national wilderness area. It is also home to one of the longest natural bridges east of the Rocky Mountains. Haleyville is where the first 911 emergency telephone system in the U.S. was implemented. In Double Springs, a statue the courthouse highlights the region’s affiliation with both U.S. and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War; county residents loyal to the United States wanted to secede from the state and the Confederacy.