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Portrait of William McIntosh (Alabama State Archives) Note: This has been transcribed from an article written around 1921. Please consider the time-frame of the…
John Wilkes Booth was in the first play held at the Old Montgomery Theatre The old Montgomery Theatre described here became the Webber Department…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8)1 Reverend Daniel S. Burtrick was present in 1838 when the Cherokees were confined to the stockades and…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) To protect the Cherokees from this intrusion (gold miners) the United States stationed…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932. ETOWAH SHOWS MORE PERFECT IN ATTENDANCE County High School Has 183 On…
Happy Birthday! SAMUEL FITTS ALSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1859-1922) Dallas and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Samuel Fitts Alston was born January 6, 1859, in Selma…
EDWARD PORTER AMERINE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1868-1904) Coffee and Montgomery County, Alabama Edward Porter Amerine, druggist was born in 1868 in Coffee County, son of…
This story and others can be found in the Alabama Footprints Series by Donna R. Causey Nobodies became Somebodies in early Alabama From 1798…
Westmoreland – Fowlkes Wedding Writeup From the Selma Morning Times, January 5, 1900 --------------------------------------------------- Beautiful Home Wedding Westmoreland-Fowlkes “O fortune, O happy day, When…
Reveals some locations of mounds visible in Alabama in 1884 Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING!…
Many visitors names for the Holidays were included in the news 1916 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) WHITESVILLE NEWS…
Happy Birthday! ROBERT BLATCHER CAUDLE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1842-1913) Jefferson and Talladega County, Alabama Robert Blatcher Caudle was an agriculturist in the southern part…
Legal notices and Sheriff's sales of H. T. Fountain, A. H. Bradley, R. E. Marshall, J. M. Brown, Elizabeth Henshaw (Transcribed from The Monroe…
YELLOW FEVER IN GREENSBORO, HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA1 (Published in 1908) Once in its history of nearly a century, Greensboro has been visited by yellow fever. It…
He was born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama and was regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1 The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November 1956-1957, presented as a Public Service, THE COMMERCIAL BANK) PRISONER There were nine…
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the 5th section of a news article written in 1817 which describes some early…
Religion, Patriotism, Laws And Civilization This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and…
Sewing, mending, and patching clothing was a constant chore for women in the 1890s, especially considering the size of most families. Clothes had to…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the Cherokees first started moving to the West, leaving their homeland behind, a strange phenomenon occurred…
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE Planters' & Merchants' Bank of Mobile vs. fi fa Robert Cowan and…
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, AlabamaMarch 13, 1840) MOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OFFICE No. 66 Commerce St. UP STAIRS The Mobile Marine Railway and…
ANTHONY PETER RASMUSSEN DAHL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1842-1922) Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois and Shelby County, Alabama Anthony Peter Rasmussen Dahl was…
From Tuscaloosa News August 2, 1937 Triplets Arrive in Perry County Three girls born to dairy farmer's wife in a Selma hospital All girls…
The Bountiful Bearden's... A family's journey in the American South by Shannon Hollon Our first Bearden in America was Jacob Bearden b.1660 in England…
Photograph Mardis-House-U.S.-Highway-231-Talladega Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 (Library of Congress) PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIII Probably it will be a matter…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) The Removal Act Of 1830 With pressure mounting from white settlers to acquire…
GREENWOOD CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA (Transcriptions below are from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942) Greenwood cemetery located in…
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