Patron Past Stories

PATRON + Daniel Pratt almost lost his life in a freak accident in Prattville

PATRON + Read how Daniel Pratt almost lost his life in a freak accident in Prattville, Alabama This excerpt is a transcribed history of…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + On May 25 the first-night airplane flight in the world took place in Alabama [see the vintage film]

On May 25, 1910,  the first-ever night-time airplane flight was made at Orville Wright's flying school near Montgomery, Alabama. Glinting now and then in the moonlight…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – Details of a shootout on 1st Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama on May 21 one hundred and thirty years ago

(Men sometimes settled their differences with guns in early Alabama as this story reveals) From The Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama 5/21/1885 BY ONE BALL…