6 Who moved the capitol?

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Little is known about Alabama's first Capitol, a two-story brick building carved out of the wilderness in the town of Cahawba in 1819. This summer, archaeologists used hightech equipment to locate buried artifacts, hoping to determine the old Capitol's exact location and other clues to its brief life. Yellow fever, heavy rains and economic troubles decimated the town, so the capital was moved to Tuscaloosa in 1825, then to Montgomery in 1846. The Cahawba...