Have you ever heard of the Town of Marathon in Lawrence County, Alabama? It was once a prominent town in Alabama Territorial days and…
Madison County, Alabama settlers believed in education from its earliest days SOME SETTLERS OF EARLY MADISON COUNTY by Thomas Jones Taylor i (1829-1894) I…
Magnolia Springs, a small town along the Gulf Coast of Alabama on the Magnolia River, has a unique United States mail delivery system that…
A cemetery is a strange place to find a miniature red-brick house complete with windows, fireplace, front porch with a mailbox. There is such…
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Richard Pearson Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor…
(Transcribed from the Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi – September 10, 1818) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS, by an act of…
Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly…
Prior to the 1880s many physicians believed that diseases such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death were caused by a miasma or a…
A WAR TIME FOUNDRY A Story of a Confederate Foundry at the present Anniston By Kate Quintard Noble Roberts1 My Grandfather, James Noble, left…
Elyton Land Company was once in a building at 20th and Morris Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama In the year 1870 several gentlemen, most of…
YELLOW FEVER (Transcribed from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen) Alabama was first visited by this…
Moundville Archaeological Park - a true treasure in Alabama Few sections in the Southern States can equal the wealth of evidence of Native American…
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Vine And Olive Colony - Fact & Fiction In 1817, a romantic…
Each year the city of Berry, Alabama has a Heritage Festival in the spring when the downtown area is buzzing with fun activities. Berry is a town…
The land beneath homes and shopping centers in the community of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, Alabama includes many historic sites, including a Revolutionary…
Founded in 1871, Birmingham was a model city at this time – railroads, blast furnaces and steel mills marked its landscape. It was a…
After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers for their service. Men were not the…
FROM TENNESSEE TO TEXAS—THROUGH ALABAMA The 1860 Diary of William Joseph Camp Edited by William R. Snell (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Most of the downtown Birmingham, Alabama was once William F. Nabers' farm (Excerpt transcribed from Downtown Birmingham Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide, 2nd…
Alabama Pioneers has more lost & forgotten stories to see. You may notice some stories with the word PATRON at the beginning. These are…
Hazel Farris b.1880 in Louisville Ky is one of the most notorious female outlaws of the early 1900s and Alabama history. After a night…
Few buildings in America can claim to have the kind of storied history as the Old State Bank in Decatur, Alabama. Standing for 183…
I reeled about like a cow with the blind staggers or a feller who had taken too many horns by Shannon Hollon David Crockett…
The following facts and information concerning the boats on the Alabama river, that have sunk or been burned since the war, was prepared by…
Mexican Revolution In 1910, a revolution in Mexico began. All across Mexico, volunteers aligned with different factions, and Pancho Villa aligned with Francisco I.…
First Protestant Minister and Early settlers of Washington County, Alabama (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882 by…
This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com On Little River,…
Read this story as well as many others in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories Continued below The daughter-in-law of Peter the…
The beautiful Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is filled with mysteries such as a door that leads nowhere, deep underground tunnels, 2-foot…
The Spelling Bee by Dennis W Smith I attended the 1st grade through 5th grade at Bayview Elementary School. The school was located in…
![PATRON: The first speech given in the South by a sitting president which called for racial equality was given in Birmingham, Alabama in 1921. [vintage photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/President_Warren_G_Harding_arriving_in_Premocar-1921-Birmingham-50th-anniversary-e1433975756977-220x175.jpg)
![AUTHOR SUNDAY: Do you believe ghosts roam the halls of the old State Bank of Decatur? [see vintage photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Restoration-Old-State-Bank-Decatur-Alabama-ca.-1934-by-photographer-1934-by-photographer-W.-N.-Manning-Library-of-Congress-220x155.jpg)
![Alabama sent many volunteer soldiers in search of Pancho Villa after he attacked a town in New Mexico in 1916 [photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Birmingham-Citizen-Soldiery-Leave-for-the-Mexican-Frontier.-In-solemn-lines-thousands-bad-the-boys-Godspeed.-Birmingham-Age-Herald-Sunday-July-30-1916-–-Birmingham-View-Company-Q9639-220x93.jpg)
![The daughter-in-law of Peter the Great – Did she fake her death and escape to early Alabama? [photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Alexis-Petrovitz-220x305.jpg)
![UPDATED WITH PODCAST Mysterious, haunted mansion [pics and films] in Tuscaloosa has many historical connections](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Jemison-Van-de-Graaf-MansionAlex-Bush-Photographer-December-20-1934.-Rear-View.-East-South-End.-Library-of-Congress-220x152.jpg)
