52 comments

  1. Greg Creech

    I applaud Mr. Burr for his service to the fledgling country. It’s just too bad it didn’t do it sooner. Though the country under the influence of Jefferson and Madison, we are now reaping the long-term legacy of Hamilton.

  2. Jan Kearley Beamon

    It’s also one of only 3 or 4 places IN THE WORLD where a glowing worm lights up a section of the canyon walls at night. The other places include China and New Zealand !

  3. First Masonic Lodge was formed before Alabama became a state - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Franklin Lodge No. 36, at Russellville, organized under Tennessee jurisdiction October 3, 1820 to Richard Ellis and others. John S. Fulton signed the Constitution as representative of this Lodge under the name of Russellville Lodge No. 36 and the Lodge chartered as No. 7, although his name is not recorded in the proceedings as being present. […]

  4. The naming of Phil Campbell, Alabama has an interesting story behind it [film and photographs] - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Campbell located in Franklin County, Alabama, twelve miles south of Russellville, was founded in […]

  5. Weylin Heath Stewart

    Dismal’s is a great place to visit… My whole family enjoyed it and keep begging to go back.

  6. Cathi Russell

    That is the coolest place to visit… amazing & otherworldly. And right here in our state!

  7. Jakob Burkett

    Andrea

  8. Rickey Dodd

    Been there and didn’t know. Interesting

  9. Patricia Lynn Duffee

    my family lived in Phil Campbell,

  10. Gaston Williamson

    I have been there what a beautiful place

  11. Nancy Hester

    Awesome place to visit ,very interesting

  12. Anonymous

    If you go, reserve a night tour to see the tiny “Dismalights”. They’re larvae that glow – like glow worms.

  13. Steven R Willis

    My mom lived at dismals canyon when she was little an i have visited a few times is an awesome place just to get away.

  14. Kathy Buchanan

    Judy Buchanan

  15. Kay Holder Wood

    but this is not a photo of the Dismals…..

    1. Donna R Causey

      The picture is of Little Bear Creek in Franklin County, Alabama, the same county where the Dismals are located. Click on the picture and you will discover more about Franklin County with a link to more about the Dismals.

  16. Michael Gilbreath

    Sounds like Buck’s Pocket where politicians go to cry! lol

  17. David Chamberlain

    Hillary Clinton owns property there.

  18. Pat Brumley

    Beautiful and interesting place to visit.

  19. Fred Jackson

    We went swimming there an the water was cold.for 25cent a day

  20. On to Alabama from North Carolina in 1817 was not an easy experience | Alabama Pioneers

    […] of the settlers located on the Franklin County side of the line and the other half fell into Lawrence County territory.  LaGrange was located in […]

  21. Biography: Col. Charles Teed Pollard born August 25, 1805 – photograph | Alabama Pioneers

    […] his statement Col. Pollard declared that about the year 1834, when he called on Col. Aaron Burr, that he said to him that Lieutenant Peacock’s last escape from his captors was one of the most […]

  22. Carla Naves Penton

    Lindsey Coppens Kelly Oswalt Naves

  23. Sharon Sullivan

    Beautiful place

  24. Diane F Shelton

    Beautiful place

  25. Marie Wehunt Frazier

    My Dad worked on Hwy 72 back in the mid 60s. They found a rusted pistol that was very old. The road crew suspected it might have been owned by Jesse James and he disposed of it during his bank robbery in Huntsville. Now reading this post, it might have belonged to Aaron Burr.

  26. Denise Dutton Benshoof

    My own relatives probably hid out there, too. My great-great-grandfather was known for being a rowdy sort and was supposedly shot in the back by the “revenooers” while he was running a keg of moonshine through the woods near Bear Creek.

  27. Tammy Bearden

    Been there!

  28. Lauren Kerns

    Mark Peterson

  29. Pat Hilliard

    Lovely place to visit

  30. John Varner

    He shot Hamilton, and may have hidden in Franklin County. The warrants he was ducking had nothing to do with the duel though.

  31. Clara Cannon

    Love this one been there a couple of times

  32. Bunny Hines

    Just gorgeous!!!

  33. JERRY SIBLEY

    I THOUGHT ALEXANDER HAMILTON WAS A PRETTY GOOD GUY, COMPARED TO SOME OF THE EARLY LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY
    APRIL 19, 2017

    1. Billie Barter

      I think he was a good guy too. Read the latest biography. Smart and tough. I admire him. Burr-not so much.

  34. Washington County…..where the State of Alabama began – Alabama Pioneers

    […] Bluff, Capt. Edmund P. Gaines, commandant of Fort Stoddert and a file of soldiers met and arrested Col. Aaron Burr, ex-vice president of the United States. He was kept in honorable captivity at the fort for over two […]

  35. David McMurry

    Chris Perry

  36. Glenda Gray Anderson

    Bart Anderson

  37. Candace Phillips Penn

    Lance Penn

    1. Lance Penn

      Candace Phillips Penn I went there when I was little. I wish it was closer.

  38. Bonnie Shanks

    Great day trip

  39. Connie Mae

    Franklin county?

  40. Lucie Lee Lanoux

    Was there a girls camp named Camp Dismal? Around 1920?

    1. Kay Sasser Jacoby

      Sounds dreadful.

    2. Kay Sasser Jacoby

      But I love this Aaron Burr story.

    3. Mary Christian Hodo

      Kay Sasser Jacoby when he was captured he was prisoner at Mt. Vernon (later known as Searcy Hospital).

    4. Kay Sasser Jacoby

      Mary Christian Hodo ohhhh

    5. Lucie Lee Lanoux

      Kay Sasser Jacoby my Mama’s sister Alcie went there. Maybe it was just Mama’s description!

  41. Kim Mason

    I wonder if the AT Burr is related to Aaron Burr?

  42. Beebe Mole

    Katie Payne

  43. Glenda Gray Anderson

    Bart Anderson

  44. Sandra Nelson

    Little bit of history !!!

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