...the backbone of Horseblock and Cheaha Mountains, the southern most extension of the Appalachian mountain range, to Alabama’s highest peak at 2,407 feet elevation. Southern hospitality abounds. - internet

Not all true. The piedmont region represents the earliest, and metamorphic, appalachian uplift and folding. The later sedimentary orogeny extends through Birmingham and then dips one mile deep beneath Tuscaloosa. In Alabama this two hundred mile long ridge is called Red Mountain.