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Daphne State Normal College ca. 1900 - main building Normal School established to educate teachers Daphne State Normal School was a "Class B" Normal…
SPRING HILL COLLEGE Mobile, Alabama Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama is the oldest Catholic college in the Southeast is also the third oldest…
Fountain Heights is one of Birmingham's historic neighborhoods, and was home to some of Birmingham's most prominent and wealthy business leaders, but today the…
UPDATE: on the historic Webber building in Montgomery, Alabama. I'm glad they are reclaiming much of the building.Demolition of Historic Webber Building Is Underway…
Judson College is the fifth oldest women's college in the United States. It was founded by members of Siloam Baptist Church in 1838 in…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI ELI FORREST DENSON, M. D. (b. 1853 - d.…
The tornado that hit Tuscaloosa in 2011 is nothing new to the area. Violent tornadoes have hit the city of Tuscaloosa in the past. The…
An Act established by the Legislature in 1819 made it unlawful to cut down or kill trees without written permission of the commissioners in Old Cahawba,…
ELYTON LAND COMPANY The city of Birmingham was conceived in the mind of engineer, John T. Milner who had surveyed the route of the…
[Birmingham, Alabama had a movie production company in 1928 and they made at least two films. This Birmingham News article from July 14, 1929,…
BATTLE OF CALEBEEi 1813 During the Creek Indian War, that had begun August 30, 1813, with the Indian attack on Fort Mims, an engagement…
We ran across this amazing old film and could not find out more about it. The pilot's name appears to be Blaine and it…
On Fat Tuesday, February 13, 1866, Confederate veteran Joe Cain paraded through the streets of federal-occupied Mobile dressed as a Chickasaw Indian chief he…
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) COMMITTALS Committed to the Jail of Mobile County, on the 14th day of December…
Bangor Cave, Blount County, Alabama Bangor Cave in Blount County, Alabama was once labeled “the only underground nightclub in America." The night club only…
The information and illustrations below are excerpts from a book written in 1887 as a prospectus for future investors in Tuscaloosa. The Tuskaloosa Coal,…
Many people left Alabama for greener pastures during this financial panic. (continued below) FLUSH TIMES IN ALABAMA (transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary…
SAM DALEY'S SCHOOL Have you ever heard of Sam Daley's school in Tuscaloosa? I found two articles about it in a 1910 paper and…
Troubles came to Birmingham shortly after it was founded. An epidemic occurred in the beginning days of Birmingham that threatened its very existence as…
Excerpt from The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama – Their Leaders and Their Work copyright 1896 THE ST. PHILLIP STREET CHURCH, SELMA…
First Deed in the City of Birmingham On the 1st day in June in 1871 lots were sold in the city of Birmingham. "The…
Two horse racetracks flourished around the turn of the century in Birmingham, Alabama. Trotwood Park was located at 75th Street and 9th Avenue North.…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…
(Photo African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala ca. 1902 (Frances Benjamin Johnston, Library of Congress) Tuskegee University was founded in…
His biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI GEORGE LEE ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1839- d. 1862)…
Willie Mays Park in Fairfield, Alabama Willie Mays speaking in Fairfield’s Willy Mays Park. Image courtesy of blog.al.com Many may have seen Willie Mays…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) Personal News from Leighton, Alabama Mr. G. T. McGregor,…
Dismals Canyon in Phil Campbell, Franklin County, Alabama holds much history as well as much naturally pristine beauty. From being a hideout for outlaws…
Our Alabama pioneers had to struggle to put a meal on the table in the early days. (The following transcription is from History of…
These historic photographs take you back in time. Benjamin Pinkney "Pink" Worthington was a pioneer of the area around Avondale/Lakeview area of Birmingham, Alabama.…
![PATRON – Daphne State Normal College – [see film] was a college specifically for teachers](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dapne-state-normal-college.jpg)
![PATRON + The oldest college in Alabama and oldest Catholic College in Southeast [film & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/interior-of-St.-Josephs-chapel-spring-hill-college-220x146.jpg)
![PATRON + Fountain Heights [film, photographs] – a historic connection to Birmingham’s past – can it be saved?](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/U_S_Weather_Bureau_Station_Alta_Avenue_and_Lawn_Street-ca.-19081-220x138.jpg)
![PATRON + Intense Indian Battle at Calebee Creek – Who won? [photographs & map]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Map-of-Creek-country-220x182.jpg)
![PATRON + This is what Tuscaloosa, Alabama looked like around 1887 [vintage prints]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TUSCALOOSA-WHARF-220x140.jpg)
![PATRON + “Conecuh County, Alabama – no grocery stores to buy food – only grist mills in the early days” [film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Historic-church-in-Burnt-Corn-Alabama-by-Carol-Highsmith-2010-220x147.jpg)
![PATRON – See beautiful [photographs] of Benjamin P. Worthington home, pioneer and a founder of Birmingham, Alabama](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Alex-Bush-Photographer-March-4-1937-FRONT-NORTH-AND-WEST-ELEVATION-Benjamin-Pinckney-Worthington-House-Sixth-Avenue-South-Birmingham-Jefferson-County-AL1-220x147.jpg)