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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Olin M. Alexander born February 8, 1868

This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI  OLIN M. ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1868-1930) Calhoun County,…

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PATRON + East Lake Atheneum was girl’s school, an orphanage, Catholic offices & now a school again [old pics]

EAST LAKE ATHENEUM Private School for Young Ladies East Lake Atheneum in Birmingham, Alabama was a former private seminary of learning for young ladies. East…

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PATRON + “It was a WPA housing project built on “slagheap” land vacated by the old Trussville Iron Furnace”

Known as Slagheap Village, the official name was the Cahaba Project in Trussville, Alabama. It was a WPA housing project built on "slagheap" land…

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PATRON + “I was about fifteen years old at that time, and I remember distinctly those Indians coming to Nashville”

(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) O. P. Williams, a citizen of Nashville, was around fifteen years old when the Cherokees were driven…

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PATRON + Photographs of Gee’s Bend – two years after the assistance of the Federal Resettlement program in 1939 – new homes

The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…

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PATRON – Do you know the name of the college in Alabama (still exists) that was once the leading college in the South?

Today, LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college, affiliated with the Methodist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. LaGrange College actually opened…