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Checking old baggage

photo Unclaimed Baggage is located in Scottsboro, Ala.

Plenty about Scottsboro, Ala., is a treasure to discover, with caves all around, some of the world’s best bass fishing in Guntersville Lake and the unique Unclaimed Baggage Center.

Then there’s an annual chance to see men in kilts.

But the town also is known for a place, the Scottsboro Boys Museum, that provides an unpleasant reminder of some ugly history along with the inspirational story of how the miscarriage of justice was stopped before it couldn’t be righted.

– Compiled by staff writer Adam Poulisse, apoulisse@timesfreepress.com, 423-757-6592

Sobering history preserved