…Store at Skyline Farms in 1937. Interior of the Store at Skyline Farms in 1937. Farmers at Skyline Farms in Feb. 1937 Farmer returning home after shopping at Skyline Farms store….
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Time to celebrate! [1937 photographs from Jackson county] This is what they did for fun at Skyline Farms – Part 6 –
Skyline Farms was a ‘New Deal’ Resettlement project in Jackson County, Alabama that was initiated in 1935 to help displaced farmers. Before the projects were stopped because they seemed too…
Great Depression experiment – Skyline Farms – [vintage photographs] Part 3 – The men had to build their own homes
Skyline Farms, a resettlement community in 1935, to provide help to farmers in the Great Depression was built by the resettled farmers in Jackson County, Alabama. New houses were built…
Schools have changed in many ways since these days when life was so much simpler – Notice how the teachers are dressed [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 5
These photographs of students and teachers at Skyline Farms in the Resettlement Community at Jackson County, Alabama during the Great Depression, reveal how far we’ve come in educating our children…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST Alabama was the 1st home for two programs that helped married men during the depression
…Farms to avoid confusion with 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…
There is musical talent in Alabama genes. Do you know names to add to this list?
…for their music. Skyline farms band, in the picture above,Walter Holt to the left, and Chester Allen on the right, the Skyline farms band performed for The President in Washington…
PATRON+ Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms
…the men who had attacked them at Burnt Corn. Terrified settlers heard of the battle at Burnt Corn and abandoned their homes and farms as they fled for shelter of…
PATRON+ MONDAY MUSINGS: You can sometimes break a family research brickwall by studying history of an area.
…children benefited from their parent’s service by traveling to the land grants and established farms and plantations. Many of the old soldiers eventually followed their children and are buried in…
PATRON+ MONDAY MUSINGS: Many Texas and western states will find that they have Alabama ancestors
…from their parent’s service by traveling to the land grants and established farms and plantations. Many of the old soldiers eventually followed their children and are buried in scattered graves…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST -PATRON + Elberta, Alabama is home to pioneer German colonists & Dinosaurs in the Woods
…hours in the fields, men, women, and children, plowing, sowing, reaping. Nights were passed in completing the construction of homes, barns, outhouses, yards, fences and even roads to their farms….
Patron+ Remarkable news article about the treatment of the Creeks written in 1836
…property has been taken from them — their stock killed up, their farms pillaged, and by who? By white men. By individuals who should have sconed (sic) to take such…
PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – Can you believe there was deep snow in 1886 that lay on the ground until April in Cleburne County, Alabama?
…the old places were sold and changed hands. Little was left on the farms after the war After the War, the men came home to find cupboards and barns bare,…
PATRON+ Holy Ground Campaign And Battle
…was then burned. The two succeeding days were devoted to the destruction of other towns of the Holy Ground and vicinity and the enemy farms and boats. The army was…
Village of Washington in 1886 – names of people – first county seat of Autauga County, Alabama
…crescent there are some large and valuable farms first settled by wealthy men. The location being unfavorable to health, these farms were merely stocked with negroes and superintended by overseers….
Gee’s Bend in Wilcox County, Alabama at the start of the Federal Government Resettlement Program in 1939
In 1937, the United States Government Resettlement Program purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in Wilcox County, Alabama and divided the land, then rented it to the tenants. During…
Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the poverty stricken community of Gee’s Bend….
The Last Panther in Alabama – or was he?
…but they found lots of tracks around the various farms. After searching for five days they finally spotted the panther and someone got off a killing shot. The hunters were…
First lands surveyed and sold in Alabama – 1850 painting of Huntsville
…county, as the case may be, who shall thereupon adjourn their courts respectively to the court house so erected as aforesaid.” First settlers purchased farms Great numbers of prospective purchasers…
PATRON + Amazing historical description of Coosa County written in 1877
…was more rapidly settled up, and farms paid a better profit in the early period of the country. Larger farms were opened, and the heaviest slave population was to be…
Walker County, [historic pictures] the home of C. J. Harris, a finalist in American Idol 2014 & the Music Park
…log house at this time. During the early stages of the Civil War the homestead at Old York Farms was the center for enlistments, and in February of 1862 Company…
Camp Ground Bethlehem Church, Graham, Alabama dates back to 1852 – with link to cemetery survey
…homefolks they expressed their great anxiety about living conditions at home. They were deeply concerned about how their wives and small children were managing the farms, “if the crops were…
Shelby County, Alabama – a little known story from the Civil War days
…had surrendered in 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and some interpreted their paroles as a release from further military service. Broken only by shallow creeks and small isolated farms, the wooded…
Mobile, the emporium of Alabama was once completely blown up
…Happy negroes, on farms of abundant harvest, labored for the production of corn, cotton, pumpkins, melons, fruits, potatoes, pease, pindars, and everything else that responded to cultivation in a soil…
Patron+ Maude, the horse – that had a false mane and tail
…that spelled a neat sum of money. The prosperous planter gave a fat check while those who were operating farms “on time” made a fat mortgage on his incoming crop….
PATRON+ Creek Chiefs appeal to Washington for Assistance
…who signed the treaty remained in a general state of alarm. People who owned farms near the Creeks, left their homes and congregated on distant farms so they could better…
Patron+ Establishing the Territory for Native Americans in the West
…of their farms, imitated the whites, and appeared to be progressing toward civilization, were it not for their “baneful attachment to whiskey.” Along either band the lands are. . ….
The Breaking Point for the Native-Americans
…peace and enforcing law. Map of Indian Lands 1802 (Library of Congress) In 1800, many of the Native Americans in what would become Alabama, dwelt in villages and owned farms,…
Happy Birthday Vulcan!
…hammer in his left, the man of iron proudly dominated Birmingham’s skyline. Torch was placed in his right hand as a safety campaign in 1946 In 1946, the decision was…
$85 dollars worth of Indian blood
…as stories of the bravery and heroism of participants from both sides. Some stores include: Tecumseh Causes Earthquake Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms Survivor Stories From Fort Mims Massacre Hillabee Massacre…
Events in the life of Joe Gillespie born 1853 as told by him in 1939 Part II
…the Creek-Indian War as well as stories of the bravery and heroism of participants from both sides. Some stores include: Tecumseh Causes Earthquake Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms Survivor Stories From…