And the discovery of iron deposits drove demand for industrial labor that fueled the growth of cities such as Huntsville, Decatur, and Birmingham. Reconstruction brought increased rail transportation. The pace of change accelerated after the Civil War. And city dwellers in Montgomery and Mobile accessed imported fruit, meat, and seafood. Enslaved people prepared locally grown food on plantations. Early Europeans, Americans, and Africans often adopted native traditions for survival. So did the Spanish and French colonizers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the earliest white American settlers and their slaves in the nineteenth. Native Americans relied on that bounty from the time they began building mounds around the start of the eleventh century. From the vast forests and plentiful rivers of the northern mountains, to the rich soil of the Black Belt, to the southern coastal lowlands, Alabama boasts bountiful resources.
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