On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S.…
1856 Recipe to cure cold, cough or croup (From The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1960) Receipt…
Brigadier Gen. James Deshler (1833-1863) Deshler Female Institute was an educational institution, incorporated as declared in its charter, "for the sole purpose of the…
He only lived five more months The following excerpt is from a letter which has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 19,…
The photographs below were made between 1890- 1910 and are probably of young women attending the Alabama Girls' Industrial School in Montevallo, Alabama which is…
On November 30, 1954, a historic event occurred in Alabama when a meteor appeared in the Alabama sky in the morning and was seen…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
A Genealogist's Christmas Wish Dear Santa: Don't bring me new dishes, I don't need a new kind of game. Genealogists have peculiar wishes For…
THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA'S REINDEER IS REVEALED According to the Alaskan Department of Fish and game, Both male and female reindeer grow antlers…
An excerpt of a transcription of a history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly as written…
(Alabama's Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at…
Below is an excerpt of a transcription of a history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 01, Spring Issue 1956 GERRARD HANSFORD, BARBER Montgomery, Alabama 1825 Gerrard Hansford, a free colored…
UPDATED WITH NEWSREEL! William Christopher Handy was born November 16, 1873 in Florence, Alabama to parents Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father…
My Childhood Christmas Memories by Jean Butterworth It is almost Christmas time and memories come flooding back remembering the simple Christmas celebrations my family…
NEEDHAM LEE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1770-1821) Shelby County, Alabama & Tennessee Needham H. Lee, Sr. was born November 14, 1770, in Prince Edward, Virginia.…
These coal miners from Birmingham and Walker County, Alabama had no idea that when they went to work one cold morning in February of…
{The following article is an exact transcription from HISTORY OF COOSA COUNTY BY REV. GEORGE EVANS BREWER CHAPTER VII SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES) The M. E. Church, South, is…
On December 17, 1819, only three days after the state of Alabama was admitted to the United States of America, an Act of the…
The population in the new Alabama Territory increased so rapidly between 1817 and 1818, that by the time the second session of the territorial…
A staple of most any Southern Thanksgiving dinner, cornbread dressing or stuffing, appears to have had its beginnings as a Native American tradition when…
Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR From Reminiscences by Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming (1851-1934)1 PART II THE OUTBREAK OF…
The early days of Birmingham, Alabama Up to the spring of 1873 the town (Birmingham) grew rapidly and had fairly won the title of…
This story is excerpt from Alabama Footprints Volumes V-VIII: Four Books in One CHANDELIER FALLS IN ALABAMA CAPITAL by Hon. E. A. Powell The…
Note from Donna Causey: Everything written below is an exact transcription (with possible misspellings) from the From Cahawba Democrat (Cahaba, Alabama) February 1, 1840, so it was…
OLDEST INHABITANTS OF GREENSBORO IN 19081 Part II (published in 1908) Rev. Richard Hooker Cobbs, D. D REV. RICHARD HOOKER COBBS, D. D.…
A grist mill in pioneer days was the place to hear all the news so ALABAMA GRIST MILL seemed to be the perfect name…
The rich lands in the Tennessee Valley were prized by speculators long before its actual settlement. When America's independence from England was declared, and…
SAND MOUNTAIN MEMORIES How we got there by Raymond Elliott My father did not always own a car during my childhood. Then there…
TO TUSCALOOSA AND BEYOND: A UNION CAVALRY RAIDER IN ALABAMA, MARCH-APRIL 1865 Edited by Edward G. Longacre (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
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