1st EVER N.Y. Times mention of Alabama, and of Montgomery, 32 years after Statehood.

     On this date in 1851, the N.Y. Times reports on a meeting to be held in Montgomery in the new year of 1852, a decade before the start of the Civil War. A harbinger of what was to come.

     But above that notice was an item about Alabama people being "apprehensive" about a famine. With a meeting held in Pickens County. That was four years after the state capitol was moved from nearby Tuscaloosa to Montgomery.