…Gee’s Bend – name possibly Artelia Bendolph photo taken by Arthur Rothstein 1937 Gee’s Bend carrying water Working in garden in 1937 Gee’s Bend curing meat in 1937 Gee’s Bend…
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Photographs of Gee’s Bend – two years after the assistance of the Federal Resettlement program in 1939 – new homes
…fireplace. Gees Bend, Alabama Aunt Sally, old midwife, the only doctor or nurse ever heard of in Gees Bend before project was started. Gees Bend, Alabama Jorena Pettway and her…
Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, originally part of the abandoned Pettway Plantation, was isolated in 1937
…at Gee’s Bend in 1937 Footpaths across the fields connected the cabins in 1937 Two ladies at Gee’s Bend in 1937 Splitting wood at Gee’s Bend in 1937 Two boys…
These vintage photographs from 1939 show how busy the cooperative store and mill in Gee’s Bend were in 1939
…mill where project families bring corn to be ground. Gee’s Bend, Alabama Gee’s Bend bringing home feed and fertilizer Fertilizer for Nolan Pettway, Gees Bend, Alabama Inside the cooperative store…
Gee’s Bend in Wilcox County, Alabama at the start of the Federal Government Resettlement Program in 1939
…the 1940s, many families at Gee’s Bend bought their farms from the government for an average of $1,400 each. In 1937, Arthur Rothstein took photographs of Gee’s Bend and citizens…
Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama
…and write and to discuss any interests and problems. Gees Bend, Alabama Teachers and nurses lived in houses at Gee’s Bend See more photographs of Gee’s Bend Biographies…
Gee’s Bend – vintage pictures of residents and the new health clinic in 1939
…Gee’s Bend, Alabama Nurse Shamburg weighing Ira Dencie Pettway’s baby in project clinic. Gee’s Bend, Alabama Nurse Shamburg is directing young girls how to make a sick bed in the…
Battle of Horseshoe Bend Part I
…fought at Horseshoe Bend in what is now Tallapoosa County on March 27, 1814. For two months General Jackson had been increasing his forces and assembling supplies. The Red Sticks…
PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend, Bibb County, Alabama, the Pratts & Fletchers
…Pratt broke their camp on east side of river and settled with their relatives in River Bend. Mr. Fletcher located upon the place now owned and known as the home…
PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend, Bibb County, Alabama, Pratts, Blake, Fletcher, Sumners, McElroys and more
…said was one of the first teachers at River Bend and his body lies a little to the north of River Bend proper; entombed almost in an unknown grave. There…
PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend – lives of Hopkins Pratt and some of his children
…was buried in River Bend graveyard. Hopkins Pratt house built around 1830 in Centreville, Alabama At his death he left a widow and nine children to meet the responsibilities of…
Clarke County, Alabama girls were encouraged to teach school in 1880 as this interview reveals
…two girls, Mamie and Annie Earle. Owned a nice home at West Bend, Alabama John Armistead owned a nice home at West Bend, Alabama, this home was a frame house…
PATRON + A river did not divide their friendship or kinship in these neighborhoods
…Inside of this large curve of a river is a large section embracing the community of River Bend. When the early settlers, came to the county they found in this…
PATRON + Two trains were involved in head-on crash at Vinegar Bend, Alabama in 1908
…on the Alabama and Mississippi road occurred Friday morning about 7 o’clock, about ten miles from Vinegar Bend, Ala., caused by a head-on collision between a passenger train and logging…
PATRON+ Battle of Horseshoe Bend Part II
…Following an appeal by him the legislature of Alabama created the Horseshoe Bend Battle Anniversary Commission, August 6, 1907. The commission organized and later presented a “Memorial” to Congress, March…
PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend – Sons & daughters of Hopkins Pratt – Marshall, Andrew, Mary
…Baptist denomination. After his marriage to Miss Cochran he settled in River Bend near his childhood home where he lived until after the close of the civil war, making a…
Many Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama found in 1901
…first bend above the Brown’s Creek bottom. Group of four or five mounds in the south bend of Tennessee River on the farm of R. M. Reives about three miles…
PATRON + Dr. Palmer’s notes (1883-1884) about Alabama – Barbour County, Clarke County & Mobile
…Sites of Creek Indians San Francis—Bend of Chattachoochee River 3 miles E. of N. Eufaula, Barbour Co. Alabama. 1884- This is an elevated section of sandy soil. Here along the…
PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend – Child of Hopkins Pratt, Sanford and Cruise family.
…only knows today his resting place. We have been informed that W. F. Lowery of River Bend was with him in this battle and had his body interred as described…
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Mary Dickerson Pratt born June 1800 Bibb County – photograph
…to a congestive chill while at home in River Bend on furlough. When her son John died, leaving a four-year-old son, the child was brought back to River Bend and…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 – Day five – August 15, 1814
…this place, both above & below—On the opposite side is a large bend of delighful bottom land, and also another large bend on the same side of the bluff some…
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Hopkins Pratt born Dec. 18, 1791 – photographs
…finding a need for more land, purchased a tract situated on a high bluff overlooking the river. This tract “at the bend of the river” was located near Centreville, in…
PATRON + Did you know that Native Americans introduced settlers to grits and eggs in the south?
…Horseshoe Bend in 1841. Under a grant from the national park service which is planning a museum in the recently designated Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, the FSU group made…
Land speculators flocked to Alabama Territory
…Bend, just opposite present-day Montgomery, was sold for $70 per acre. The high land on the Ten mile Bluff, opposite the Big Bend, was sold in part for $50 per…
PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST Alabama was the 1st home for two programs that helped married men during the depression
…Cumberland Homesteads, a similar Resettlement Administration development in Tennessee. (Click to see more images, film and the story of Skyline Farms in Jackson County, Alabama and Gee’s Bend in Wilcox…
The people of Skyline Farms were seeking a better life in Jackson County [film & old photographs] some people considered it socialism
…Since it was in located in the south, Skyline Farms was established for whites only in Jackson County, Alabama. Another similar project named Gee’s Bend Farms was established for African…
What really caused the sinking of the Monmouth and killing of over 300 Indians?
…collision will probably never be known. Accident occurred at Prophet Island Bend It is known that the accident occurred at Prophet Island Bend (today called Profit Island Bend) and…
[Film & picutures of ] Dallas County, Alabama has over 1250 historic structures listed on the state and national historic registers
…Weaver. 1869-70—Warren A. Brantley; Joseph Draun; A. Emmons; John Hardy; Spencer Weaver. 1870-1—George F. Marlowe; Henry Cochran; Edward Gee (Negro); Jere Haralson (Negro); R. Johnson (Negro). 1871-2—H. Cochran; Ned Gee;…
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Gen. Anderson Abercrombie born August 28, 1786
…purchased a large tract of land on Coweta Bend embracing the Indian town of Coweta, part of which purchase money was paid to the Indians and part to the Columbus…
Barbour County – Creek Indian Nation occupied for many years – forced to evacuate after 1832
…mounds near Eufaula. Remains of a large town was found three miles northeast of Eufaula at St. Francis Bend.i The southernmost tip went into the making of Barbour County, which…