Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer THOMAS JEFFERSON MARTIN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1842-aft. 1904) Shelby County, Alabama Thomas…
PATRON+ SATURDAY SECRETS - How to make great tea, morocco, and kid shoes in 1886! HOUSEHOLD HINTS FROM 1886 The lustre of morocco is…
PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: This is hilarious! But I imagine it was true. . . A prominent physician of Baltimore tells of an amusing…
PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS – Did you know that the Confederate States had no Supreme Court? (Excerpt transcribed from The South Alabamian, Jackson, Clarke…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer JAMES HAMILTON EDWARDS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1857-1922) Pike County, Alabama James Hamilton…
Continued stories from Rev. R. W. Brooks of Escambia, County, Alabama written in 1939 - his first and last political speech My first and…
PATRON + Tecumseh's Arrival in Alabama described by a witness This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3)…
PATRON + Could this be the University of Alabama's highest-scoring game? I wonder what the University of Alabama's highest-scoring game has been. I ran…
EUFAULA, ALABAMA Indian Tribes and their Homes -1825 (Transcribed from: History of Eufaula, Alabama: the bluff city of the Chattahoochee By J. A. B. Besson…
Did you know? In Montgomery, Alabama it is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses? In Lee…
Old Southern University Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama Old Southern University was built in 1857 by Mullins and Hall of Selma, Alabama. It was owned…
Princely Gambling1 Gambling in the early days was very common and considered quite a respectable occupation, and men of the highest standing, measured by the…
EARLY HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA Hale County, Alabama was created by the Legislature of the State of Alabama on January 30, 1867. The larger part…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII in EBook, Paperback & Hard cover format…
NIMROD EARLE BENSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1794-1854) South Carolina, Montgomery County, Alabama (Copyrighted Excerpt from The Grand Masters of Free & Accepted Masons of the…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration - This house at 1256 O'Donnell Street in the historic district of Oakdale, Mobile,…
(Clay County, Alabama is a beautiful place to take a vacation. With Cheaha State Park, Lake Wedowee and the Alabama Gold Camp all in…
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…
Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens Part II Schools and Indians NOTE: This speech was made in 1899 and some language would be offensive today.…
Humorous Tombstones Catholic Cemetery, La Pointe, Wisconsin: To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu Born 18 September 1822 Accidentally shot 4th April 1844 As a…
THE FIRST HOUSES BUILT IN GREENSBORO AFTER THE WAR (CIVIL)1 (published 1908) It would be superfluous to state that for nearly twenty years after…
THE DUMB SUPPER (Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration author from Pike County, Alabama) Written by Lois Lynn 11/12/1936 The…
Masonic Lodge of Greensboro, Alabama1 Published in 1908 The Masonic Lodge now in existence in Greensboro (in 1908)— known as Lafayette No. 26—dates back…
(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…
Free Genealogy Link You can search land patents in Alabama for free online via the Bureau of Land Management. after reaching the site.. click…
Early Lawrence County, Alabama Lawrence County, Alabama was established at a very early day in Alabama. Formed from territory acquired by the Cherokee and Chicasa…
(Transcribed and unedited story from an unknown (possibly Susan Russell) WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer. JOHN MURRELL, TERROR OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE Written ca.…
And Away They Go - they disappeared overnight by Inez McCollum A few years ago, a painter was putting a fresh coat of paint…
Have a brickwall in your family research? Have you checked these records for clues? Autograph books Baby Books Birthday books Journals or diaries Insurance…
LOCAL NEWS AND PERSONALS AROUND TUSCUMBIA INN 1890 provide many clues for family researchers. (Cabin in Photograph above from Tuscumbia, Alabama by Carol Highsmith…
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