Daniel Pratt: Alabama's Great Builder (Alabama Roots Biography Series)

Biography of Daniel Pratt from Prattville, Alabama. In 1833, Alabama was a rugged and dangerous frontier. There were no factories where workers went each day to make things and get paid for their labor. That year, Daniel Pratt came down the Federal Road into Alabama with a wagonload of machine parts and started changing the way people in Alabama made their livings. What he started is still going on today.