Noccualula Falls in Alabama are located on land once owned by R.A. Mitchell, who gave the site to the city of Gadsden, so that the area could be improved, and everyone could enjoy the majestic falls. The Falls, which drops into the Black Creek ravine, is marked with a bronze statue of Cherokee princess Noccalula, who, according to local legends, plunged to her death after being ordered by her father to marry a man she didn't love. The bronze statue of Noccalula was, at the time of its creation, the first statue of a person jumping off a cliff. The bronze used in the statue was made from pennies collected from local schoolchildren in the mid-1960s. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2010.