"In 1822, Mr. Edward Davis purchased Job and brought him to old Jonesboro, in Jefferson County, Alabama, to be his slave. Mr. Davis lived…
EARLY LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA Lowndes County was inhabited by the Alibamo Indians, whose chief town was Ikanatchaka, or Holy Ground. It was at that…
(Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard Woods was his son-in-law.…
MARRIAGE by Maude Dreisbach (Alabama WPA writer) written ca. 1936 During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and…
Public Halls in Early Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama1 (Published in 1908) Public halls were popular in early Greensboro, Alabama. By public halls is meant a…
Witches and ghosts were prevalent in early Cherokee County, Alabama CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT By Rev. J. D. Anthony Part IV…
RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Unusual Weights and Measures from 1880s and today's equivalents & other tips Household hints from the past: "A delicious whipped cream substitute…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII FRANCIS MERIWETHER GILMER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1810-1892) Montgomery,…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. A…
(Transcribed From The Evening Post New York, New York-August 21, 1817) Much valuable information to emigrants and others, is contained in the following letter…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part II (Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 (Photograph Home…
LET'S THINK POSITIVE Living on Earth is expensive but it does include a free trip around the sun every year Photograph of a class…
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ALABAMA From:History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen (transcribed…
From Birmingham Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama May 14, 1874 Duval and Roberts Editors WHY SHAD APPEARED IN ALABAMA RIVERS Mr. William Gesner, of Birmingham,…
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded a Montgomery City bus to go home…
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3) First Edition Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron/Patreon and unlock even…
Today, June 7th, Vulcan, the largest cast iron statue in the world located in Birmingham, Alabama, is having a birthday. He is the centerpiece of…
William Story age 45 born Virginia Wife, Susan age 40 born Virginia Children: James age 16 Francis Male age 12 George age 12 Arritha…
Choccolocco Valley, Alabama, settled over 2500 years ago by Native Americans, has lost many historic sites including the covered bridge and Native American mound…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) Part III HOME INDUSTRIES, SPINNING AND WEAVING Within a…
GLIMPSES FROM NORMANDY by Jean Butterworth This past June 6, 2009 commemorated the 65th Anniversary of D-Day and the Invasion at Normandy. Many American…
From the Montgomery Mail, Nov. 24, 1858. LETTER FROM J. K. KLINCK, OF TENNESSEE. Eds. Mail: Having lately read some sketches of the Creek…
DIVISION OF GREENSBORO IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE1 A few years prior to 1830, Greensborough was divided into three imaginary wards, known…
HISTORY OF THE AUBURN BAPTIST CHURCH By Mary Reese Frazer (Transcribed from a pamphlet written in 1926) In 1838, this part of the State…
The Little Boy Cook by Joe Baxter Davis In the 1940's we lived in Birmingham. Daddy worked as an auto body man and painter,…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V --- Now in ebook, paperback , and hardback RUFUS…
Tips all the way from Africa in 1887. SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE STORY (Excerpt transcribed from The South Alabamian, Jackson, Clarke County, Alabama, October…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part I Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 TUSCUMBIA A…
The people of Winston County, Alabama regretted that a majority of the delegates at the convention in Montgomery before the Civil War passed the…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, William P. Burke BIGGEST RABBIT RAISING INDUSTRY Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama written ca.…
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