Avondale was a company town built east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887. The city was…
Our ancestors knew how to keep flowers fresh. Here are a few good tips. Cut flowers keep longer if place in leftover tea, weakened with…
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DAPHNE METHODIST CHURCH OLDEST ON EASTERN SHORE1 By Ed Ritter, Mobile Press Register (Probably written before 1945) Daphne's dignified Colonial style Methodist Church is…
Nut Grass is a grassy weed that seeks out the moist, poorly drained sections of your yard and is a tough weed to control…
Typographical errors that made it through editing are often funny From the society column: "Mrs. John King entertained members of the Friday Boob Club."…
Dr. Thomas Owen became Director of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History in 1901. He died in 1921. At his death, this…
EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants…
THE SOUTHERN GIRL (The Guntersville Democrat, Guntersville, Alabama April 20, 1899) In concluding an editorial inspired by a Southern girl's regret that she cannot…
THORNHILL OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE (MRS. SCEARS LEE) "Thornhill, the last of the…
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THOMAS CHALMERS McCORVEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1852 - 1932) Monroe and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Colonel T. C. McCorvey was born in Monroe County on…
I think it is always interesting how time has changed our ideas regarding medicine. I love old books and found the following in an…
CONFEDERATE GENERAL, OFFICERS FROM ALABAMA 1861-1865 (Excerpt transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume I. pp.324-327) Alabama was credited on…
Banks in Early Greensboro, Alabama1 (Published 1908) In February 1854, the Planters' Insurance Company was incorporated in Greensboro. (Hale County, Alabama). Books for subscription…
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Epitaph of a miser: Here lies one who for medicine would not give A little gold, and so his life he lost: I fancy…
CONFEDERATE GENERAL, OFFICERS FROM ALABAMA 1861-1865 (Excerpt transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume I. pp.324-327) Alabama was credited on…
(Story posted Public Story on Ancestry.com) Rev. W. M. J. Elder 1804-1870 Rev. Wytch M. J. Elder was born in Clarke County, Georgia, October…
(Transcribed from The Southern Democrat, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, September 1, 1898) One-fourth of the people on the earth die before the age of…
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(Continued transcription from Southern Star, Newton, Dale County, Alabama, August 10, 1921 – info on Byron Ard, Will Kirkland, and Ab Borders) A tribute…
On March 31, 1916, Julia Strudwick Tutwiler's death was reported in the Florence Times. Julia Sturdwick Tutwiler died on March 24, 1916, in Birmingham,…
Our ancestors had many hints for making household tasks easier in the 1920s. Household hints from the 1920s Brass that is badly discolored and…
Birmingham was preparing for a huge dedication celebration for Vulcan in 1939 as can be seen in the newspaper article below. News from The…
In the Southeast corner of Geneva County, Alabama is a small town by the name of Bellwood. Located in the northern part of Geneva,…
MOON-EYED by J. W. Hand1 written ca. 1938 (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Grandpappy Cook had just finished bragging about selling a five-dollar…
(Continued transcription from Southern Star, Newton, Dale County, Alabama August 10, 1921 – info on Joe Acker, Mike Sollie, and Harry Martin) A tribute…
Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was one of the first newspaperwomen in America. When her husband died in 1813, she…
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