Note: The city of Marion was first named Muckle’s Ridge, but was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later…
This is a beautiful State Park south of Birmingham and a wonderful place for a picnic or outing. They have saved and restored many…
Zebulon Butler, an early settler of the Valley Creek Community in Selma, Alabama built a mill on the swift-rushing waters of Valley Creek to…
Do you have additional information about these Confederate soldiers? Click on the link at the end to inform the Alabama Department of Archives and…
A Toilet by Any Other Names by Inez McCollum The toilet has been the butt of many jokes and has quite a variety of…
The Bryars/Hadley Feud Bryars Hadley Feud (Taken from actual court documents exactly as it was written, and exactly how spelling and words were used)…
General Sam Dale gives an eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh's visit to Alabama in 1811 Scroll down to read story The Shawnee chief,…
On April 12, 1865 the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his command to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
Jackson Hotel at Blount Springs ca. 1900 Blount Springs - summer resort in rural setting “Blount Springs's mineral springs and rural setting made it…
(This has been exactly transcribed as written in 1944 in The Alabama Historical Quarterly) LAST CONFEDERATE REUNION What will probably prove to be the last…
Betty Jane Rase, was a teenager from Phillips High School in Birmingham, Alabama, then she became Miss Birmingham, Miss Alabama and was suddenly propelled onto the…
The Ghost of Roupes Valley Ironworks(Tannehill Furnaces) by Shannon Hollon Since the late 1800s, locals have told of ghostly images and presences at Tannehill…
RECOLLECTIONS OF CAROLINE LEADINGHAM Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 03, Fall Issue 1956 -- Continued below Our home and the…
(This is an almost unbelievable story but is true as local citizens agree. The story of what took place is recounted in the films.) ;
First Radio in Alabama The state of Alabama did not have a licensed radio station until 1922. The first Alabama's radio broadcast was made to Thomas…
This minister's passion for a school changed many lives. The Story Of The Downing Industrial School by Reverend J.M. Shofner Brewton, Alabama 1919 While…
Sturdivant Hall By Joe McKnight As a pre-teen growing up in Selma, AL., I once broke into Sturdivant Hall, an ante-bellem mansion which these…
[Note - The annual Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll will take place this year October 20, 2019 from 1:30 The PODCAST was recorded at an earlier…
(Continued from Part I) An inspiring unedited true story from the author of History of Eufaula, published in 1930 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . .…
Excerpts from the History of Coosa County, Alabama Chapter One By Rev. George E. Brewer (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No.…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day Nine on August 19, 1814 (Continued) An amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama…
(Works Progress Administration interview from 1938 - transcribed exactly as written - including misspelled words, etc.) JIM HOLBACK Dangerous Democrat Tuscaloosa, Alabama by WPA…
Following the destruction of the University of Alabama campus during the American Civil War, a new Quad emerged in the late 19th and early 20th…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day Seven on August 17, 1814 This amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day six Amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River on August 16, 1814…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day five (Continued)An amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River on August 15,…
Do you have additional information about these Confederate soldiers? Click on the link at the end to inform the Alabama Department of Archives and…
Here's some vintage picture of people from around Cullman, Alabama at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Do you know more about them? Click on the…
Belle Mont Mansion, the beautiful Jeffersonian-style plantation home in Colbert County, Alabama host many activities throughout the year including A Day in May Art…
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