Raw States
AMVETS Veterans Parade
Athens, AL · Holiday
- When
- November 11, 2026
- Where
- Assemble at AHS; ends at Athens Limestone County Public Library · Athens · AL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A Veterans Day parade held on November 11 through downtown Athens. The route starts at Athens High School, winds along Pryor, Shaw, Hobbs, Jefferson, Market, Marion and Washington Streets, and ends at the Athens-Limestone County Public Library. The city of Athens lists it on its events calendar.
The history within reach
- Bed Intruder16 mi
A local news interview after an attempted assault, auto-tuned by the Gregory Brothers into a song that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the first meme to earn its subject royalties, which Antoine Dodson used to move his family out..
- Jesse Owens34 mi
Born the tenth child of a sharecropper in Lawrence County, a sickly boy who ran everywhere because, he said, it was the one thing you could do by yourself.
The government dammed the shoals to power nitrate plants for the First World War and finished six years after the armistice, leaving an enormous public asset with no purpose.
Rick Hall built a studio over a drugstore in a town of eight thousand and drew soul singers from everywhere to a rhythm section of white farm boys who had grown up on gospel radio.
- The Florence mound40 mi
A flat-topped earthen mound forty-three feet high on the riverbank, the largest of its kind on the Tennessee, raised in baskets long before the town around it.