In the 1930s and 1940s, bus travel was the common way to travel to school, around town and to other parts of the country.…
Read this story and more in: ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) When Alabama was first settled by the French, they…
Mahan boys and comrades (Written in 1910) The three Mahan boys and their comrades, following the good fight at New Orleans, split up into…
The area which makes up Bullock County, Alabama belonged to the Creek Indians until the treaty of Fort Jackson ceded the western half of…
"Lurleen Wallace was inaugurated as Alabama's first female governor--and only the third nationwide--as an estimated 150,000 look on. Wallace succeeded her husband George C. Wallace, who…
The Last Panther In Alabama (Written exactly as told) from Gibbons Family News Letter submitted by Dorothy Clark Way back, sometime around 1902 -1908,…
(This article was prepared by the author, Thomas P. Clinton in 1916, followed by a number of other historical studies of the section treated.…
Submitted by Patricia Ross Parker I had always known that my grandmother's maiden name was Baker and that she had lived as a child…
Traditionally, football has always been considered a boy's sport, but a young girl at Escambia High in Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama challenged this practice…
We have been chronicling and sharing Alabama's true history for over 10 years through alabamapioneers.com, our books, and now our Podcast, "The Alabama Grist…
The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. IV come from many sources. A good deal of the information…
Uncle Sam the Coffee King by Shannon Hollon A few years ago back during the "war" some of us Alabama boys of Navy Cargo…
“Valley Creek Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Valley Grande, Alabama, United States. The two-story red brick church building was built in…
THE AUBURN MALE COLLEGE LAYING THE CORNERSTONE ITS ORGANIZATION Auburn, Ala., August 18, 1857 Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
(Memorial Day seems a good time to remember what life was like in 1942) I Remember December 7th by Dorothy Graham Gast "Pearl Harbor…
Grandma and Grandpa Graham by Dorothy Graham Gast We were blessed to grow up next door to Grandpa and Grandma in Romulus, Alabama. The…
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Portrait of William McIntosh (Alabama State Archives) Note: This has been transcribed from an article written around 1921. Please consider the time-frame of the…
John Wilkes Booth was in the first play held at the Old Montgomery Theatre The old Montgomery Theatre described here became the Webber Department…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
This story and others can be found in the Alabama Footprints Series by Donna R. Causey Nobodies became Somebodies in early Alabama From 1798…
Westmoreland – Fowlkes Wedding Writeup From the Selma Morning Times, January 5, 1900 --------------------------------------------------- Beautiful Home Wedding Westmoreland-Fowlkes “O fortune, O happy day, When…
He was born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama and was regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of…
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the 5th section of a news article written in 1817 which describes some early…
The Bountiful Bearden's... A family's journey in the American South by Shannon Hollon Our first Bearden in America was Jacob Bearden b.1660 in England…
We've had some very cold days in the southeast the past few years, but I wonder if any can match some of these storms. In…
On August 2, 1819 - The first Constitution of Alabama was adopted paving the way to statehood in December. It was considered a model…
"On January 30, 1966, Alabama experienced its coldest ever recorded temperature of -27°F at New Market in Madison County. The average low temperature during…
Coosa County was created by the legislature December 18, 1832, from the lands included in the Creek Indian Treaty of Cusseta, executed March 24,…
SOME TERRY FAMILIES OF ALABAMA includes a compilation of documented genealogy records, notes and brief biographies of JAMES TERRY (1727- 1799) Alabama descendants, DAVID…
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