Centre, Alabama

Centre, United States

Centre, Alabama carries 14 connections with 787 other places across 6 topics, ranging from transportation and music to nature and industry. The city sits at the edge of Weiss Lake on the Coosa River, a reservoir self-proclaimed as the Crappie Capital of the World. Its industrial reach extends far: in 1865 John Pratt of Centre built the Pterotype, a writing machine featured in Scientific American that inspired early typewriter inventors. Cherokee County, where Centre sits, was established in 1836 and named after the Cherokee people who once lived in the area.

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