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The extermination of an Alabama Indian Town by De Soto (Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) The People Of…
In the early 1830's the eyes of the country were turned upon the eastern frontier of Alabama where the long occupancy of the Creek…
SOME OLD KITCHEN MEASUREMENTS (Excerpt from The Courtland Enterprise, Courtland, Alabama, February 15, 1894) (continued below) One quart of wheat flour is one pound.…
Life on Shades Mountain in 1940 was very different from today. Shades Mountain is part of Hoover, Alabama. My Grandparents on Shades Mountain by…
The Armistead's John [P?] Armistead Grove Hill, Alabama Interview Life History Annie Webb Clarke County (Transcribed from Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 NOTES HAYDEN – New High School building at this place completed and…
Genealogy tip: Do you have an elusive ancestor that may have been mentioned once or twice in a census and then disappears? This can…
Buttermilk is the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cream. "Before cream could be skimmed from whole milk, the milk was left…
(Alabama was a busy place in the early 1800s and a simple horse path through the state turned into a major road for early…
Amos Elliott, Sr. was born in 1760-1770 in Edgefield, South Carolina. He died in 1844 in Shelby County, Alabama. Some Descendants of Amos "Stump"…
(This is a great story about John Hunt, founder of Huntsville, Alabama. It is sad that his gravesite was ignored for many years.) The…
I'm glad to be living today! I ran across the following article recently and realized the advances women have made in America. This is…
The Jerry D. Young Memorial Field which now serves as the UAB Blazers Baseball Team's home field was once the location of Behrens Park…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART III By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We had Sunday School one Sunday a month…
DR. SEALE HARRIS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1870-aft. 1904) Bullock County, Alabama Seale Harris was a leading physician of Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama. He…
This is probably one of the earliest videos of Auburn University. The famous Toomer's Corner, at the intersection of College Street and Magnolia Avenue,…
John Washington Mackey was an early pioneer of Perry County, Alabama is believed to have been the son of John G. and Mary Mackey…
Stafford Plaza in 2009 stands on old site of first Alabama Female Academy in Tuscaloosa, Alabama ALABAMA FEMALE INSTITUTE (First called Alabama Female Academy…
Carbon Hill is located in the northwestern part of Walker County, Alabama about 15 miles west of Jasper. It was settled in 1886 and…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
[This historic site is still surrounded by controversy as can be seen by the film at the end of the article. Most of the…
As a savings to our readers, we now have the first eight books of the ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Lost and Forgotten Stories series in…
This story was written in 1858 by Gen. Thompson Simpson Woodward of the Alabama militia. He was in Alabama from very early days. WINN…
The stories in Alabama Footprints - Exploration - A collection of lost & forgotten stories of Alabama, concerns the discovery of Alabama and the initial settlement era.…
Recipes for some unusual tea from The Perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland for these cold winter days. SLIPPERY ELM TEA – Pour…
Taverns and Stage Stops were the hotels and motels in early Alabama - here is where many were located. I wonder how many buildings…
Union Springs, the county seat of Bullock County, is centrally located and has a charming history. It was settled thirty years prior to Bullock…
Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee, he died from a fever in Alabama in 1815, while traveling through the state. Of Course, the…
(This is a great place to vacation) Pineda discovered Mobile Bay “Christopher Columbus had scarcely been in his grave fourteen years when Pineda discovered…
Reflections from the Blue Rocking Chair by Joyce Ray Wheeler PROLOGUE: Just when my grandchildren were beginning to outgrow their early childhood, I was…
![AUTHOR SUNDAY: My Grandparents life on Shades Mountain in 1940 was very different from today [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Shades-mountain-220x144.jpg)
![PATRON + The Federal Road was the state of Alabama’s first interstate – Do you know where it was? [map and picture]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/old-federal-road-220x294.jpg)
![PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST Why was there a mystery about John Hunt the sheriff, founder of Huntsville?[film & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Huntsville_from_High_Mountain_Road-220x40.jpg)
![PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST – “UAB baseball stadium was once the site of a ‘melting pot’ of Birmingham immigrants” [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Oldtimers_talk_over_Jordan_Park_history-Feb.-2-1949-newspaper-clipping-The-birmingham-news-age-hearld-220x185.jpg)
![PATRON + The Stafford Hotel in Tuscaloosa sits on site of first female college dating back to 1830 [old pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/capitol_park-historic-tuscaloosa-220x88.jpg)
![PATRON +”Alabama Hotel dates back over 150 years – still exists” [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/point-clear-sunset3-220x152.jpg)
