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Final 3 Heritage Trail Markers Unveiled In Mobile

Mobile, AL – The Mobile Historic Development Commission will start offering bus tours for the city's African-American Heritage Trail in April now that the final three markers have been unveiled.

The markers that were unveiled Sunday afternoon note the Mobile slave market, self-emancipated slave Wallace Turnage and Michael Donald, a teen who was found hanging from a tree just west of downtown in March 1981.

Dora Finley, who chairs the African-American Heritage Trail Committee, said the commission will offer groups charter bus tours for the 40-site trail.

Finley also said a cyberspace tour will be available in July.

School tours for fourth-graders studying Alabama history will start in September. The trail also includes the home site of baseball legend Hank Aaron.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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