When the building of steamboats was still in its infancy, one Alabamian built floating palaces, as fine and as fast as money could produce.…
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CALVIN PRICE ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1875-aft. 1904) Lauderdale County, Alabama Clavin Price Anderson was a teacher and legislator. He was born November 7,…
Athens was incorporated by an act of the Territorial Government Dec. 19,1818. The Masonic Hall in the town had a cornerstone that was laid in…
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(Transcribed from the Geneva County Citizen, Geneva, Alabama, January 30, 1895) DENTAL NOTICE Drs. J. R. and Denl Adair have removed their office to…
This is an excerpt from the book Vinegar of the Four Thieves REPELLING MOTHS To keep woolens and furs from moths, be sure that…
GENEALOGY TIP Are you having difficulty identifying people in photographs? Here are some tips In the 19th century, it was a normal practice to…
Cherokees exterminate the Black Cherokees before Europeans arrive CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT Part II By Rev. J. D. Anthony From…
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(Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA…
JOURNAL OF JAMES A. TAIT FOR THE YEAR 1813.1 (Diary entries from the 25th of August 1813 to the 25th of March 1815). Edited…
JAMES MILES KILLIAN GUINN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (November 5, 1835 – June 8, 1903) Randolph County, Alabama James Miles Killian Guinn, author of this…
One Sexton, an Englishman, had two wives, and this significant inscription was put upon the tombstone of one by the bereaved husband: Here lies…
SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the Clerk's office of the City Court of Birmingham, Jefferson county,…
Do you want to make dressing like your Alabama grandmother for Thanksgiving? Then start with Alabama corn meal from the J. T. Pollard cornmeal in…
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This is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below Only few regionsn of…
Topeka, Kansas: "Here lies Sheriff Tim McGrew who said he would arrest Bill Hennessy or die... He was right." "Here lies Michael Horton…
CAPTAIN JOHN G. BARR CHAPTER XXXV (from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886) by Hon. E. A.…
(Richard Breckenridge wrote a diary when he made a trip to survey his future home site in Alabama in 1816. Excerpts from his diary…
[The location of the National Peanut Festival is at the fairgrounds on US Highway 231 South. According to the National Peanut festival website: “The…
All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions – but precious few of them ever translate those into action. John Hancock…
REV. ASA CYRUS COLLINS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-ca. 1896) Dallas County, Alabama Rev. Asa Cyrus Collins, of Hazen, Ala., was born November 1, 1861, in Dallas…
This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records PETERS FAMILY…
Maybe we should adopt this Native American way of settling disputes - we'd have less bloodshed This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA…
Settlers came mostly from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee. Many of them fought in the Revolutionary War. This story is an excerpt from A…
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