Sand Mountain (Alabama)

**Dutsen Sand** dutse ne mai yashi a arewa maso gabashin Alabama da (zuwa ƙasa kaɗan) arewa maso yammacin Jojiya da kudu maso gabashin Tennessee inda aka fi sani da tudun dutsen Raccoon da Dutsen Dattijo. Yana daga cikin iyakar kudancin tudun Appalachian kuma shine mafi girma a cikin sarkar. Dangane da yanayin yanayin ci gaba na Walden Ridge, Dutsen Sand wani yanki ne na Plateau Cumberland, wanda ya rabu da babban yanki na tudu ta Kogin Tennessee da kwarin Sequatchie . Matsakaicin tsayi a kan Dutsen Sand yana kusa da  sama da matakin teku, idan aka kwatanta da kusan  a cikin yankunan da ke kewaye.  Wannan tsayin yana kaiwa ga samun yanayi mafi sanyi a cikin jihar Alabama.  Babban birni a kan Dutsen Sand shine Albertville, a cikin gundumar Marshall. Dangane da ƙidayar jama'a ta 2020, yawan mutanen garin ya kai 22,386. 

## Tarihi

### Tarihi ta hanyar Zaman Mulki
An zauna a yankin Dutsen Sand aƙalla shekaru 9,000, kamar yadda binciken binciken kayan tarihi ya tabbatar a kusa da Russel Cave National Monument, kusa da Bridgeport, Alabama .  A cikin lokutan tarihi, ƙauyukan Cherokee da Creek suna cikin kwarin Tennessee zuwa yammacin Sand Mountain, kuma a cikin Wills Valley zuwa gabas. Sequoyah, mahaliccin Cherokee syllabary, ya zauna a kauyen Cherokee na Wills Town, kusa da Fort Payne na yau a Wills Valley. 

Turawan farko da suka fara gani, wataƙila ɗan ƙasar Sipaniya ne Hernando de Soto da mutanensa, waɗanda aka yi imanin sun haye Dutsen Sand a lokacin tafiya ta kudu maso gabashin Amurka ta Arewa tsakanin 1539 da 1543. Ɗaya daga cikin hanyoyin da za a iya bi don balaguron ya gano hanyarsu ta tsaunin Sand a kan hanyar kudu daga Kwarin Tennessee zuwa kwarin Coosa . 

### Yaƙin basasa
Sojojin Tarayyar karkashin Manjo Janar George H. Thomas sun haye Dutsen Sand a watan Satumba na shekara ta 1863 a wani yunƙuri na katse sojojin Confederate a Chattanooga . Ba su yi nasara ba, kuma sojojin adawa sun hadu a yakin Chickamauga a ranar 19-20 ga Satumba, 1863, wanda ya haifar da babbar nasara ta Confederate. 

Lardunan Jackson da DeKalb, tare da sauran kananan hukumomin arewacin Alabama, sun kada kuri'ar kin amincewa da ballewar nan da nan a watan Disambar 1860, kuma ra'ayin 'yan kungiyar ya kasance mai karfi a kan Sand Mountain. A farkon 1861, 'yan ƙasa a yankuna da yawa na arewa maso gabas sun ba da shawarar ficewa daga Alabama kuma su haɗa kai da gundumomin da ke kusa da Gabashin Tennessee don ƙirƙirar sabuwar jihar Nickajack .  Masana'antu irin su hakar ma'adinai, milling, da kuma aiki ga layin dogo sun yarda da su a matsayin keɓancewa ga aikin soja ga ƙungiyoyin haɗin gwiwar Kudancin, kuma wasu a kan Sand Mountain waɗanda ba sa son yin aikin soja sun yi aiki a Sauta Cave a cikin kwarin Tennessee, ma'adinai potassium nitrate don yin gunpowder a Selma. 

### Karni na 20
Sand Mountain ya kasance gida, daga 1903 zuwa 1905, zuwa ga ɗan gajeren zaman jama'a na iyalai Yahudawa arba'in na Rasha waɗanda ke ƙoƙarin samar da gonar gama gari da damuwar masana'antu. Saboda keɓe yankin daga sauran al'ummomin Yahudawa, ƙasan farar ƙasa na yankin, da rashin jituwa a cikin ƙungiyar, an yi watsi da aikin kuma mazaunan sun ƙaura bayan shekaru biyu. 

## Geography

Dutsen Sand yana gudana a cikin wata diagonal arewa maso gabas zuwa kudu maso yamma daga kusurwar arewa maso gabashin Alabama, kuma ya haɗa da sassan Jackson, DeKalb, Marshall, Etowah da Blount a cikin Alabama, da kuma wani yanki na gundumar Dade, Georgia . 

Dutsen Sand, musamman ƙarshen arewa, watau gabashin gundumar Jackson da gundumar DeKalb ta arewa, galibi ƙauye ne,  yanki ne na noma, tare da cakuda kaji, saniya, da gonakin dankalin turawa, da sauran gonaki iri-iri,  da kuma manyan filayen kiwo da dazuzzuka.  Ya ƙunshi ƙananan garuruwa da yawa (kasa da mutane 1,000) da al'ummomin da ba a haɗa su ba.

## Manazarta