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Early Days and People of Marshall County, Alabama
Early Days and People of Marshall County, Alabama One of the first white men to settle in Madison County was a Scotchman named John Gunter who lived among the Cherokee Indians and married a beautiful Cherokee girl. He had three sons, Edward, Sam, and John Gunter. Edward Gunter served with Andrew Jackson at the Battle […]
PATRON + [vintage pics] This Alabama county was established, abolished, and went through three name transitions
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PATRON – Notes found on the 1850 census of Perry County, Alabama
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Are you researching ancestors in Lawrence County, Alabama? This may help
Are you researching ancestors in Lawrence County, Alabama? This may help. Lawrence County was created by act of the Territorial Legislature of February 4, 1818, before Alabama became a state. Formed from territory acquired by the Cherokee and Chicasa (Chickasaw) cession of 1816. The early settlers of the county came from Virginia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. […]
PATRON + A US Marshall was killed in Etowah County, Alabama
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PATRON + Shelby County, Alabama- the house with first glass windows is still standing
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PATRON – Rutland Cemetery, with a link to names of people buried there – Colbert County, Alabama
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PATRON + Cherokees regarded as less than human
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PATRON + Dr. Palmer’s notes (1883-1884) about Alabama – Lauderdale County, Decatur and Williams Plantation
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST Bellefonte – 1st county seat of Jackson County now only a ghost town
Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly two miles southeast of Hollywood, Alabama. Private vs Public Lands The origin of Bellefonte and how it became the county seat of Jackson County, Alabama is related to the circumstances surrounding […]
PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1872
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PATRON + The Capture of the Cherokees
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PATRON+ Cherokees Allowed To Move Themselves
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST Huntsville pioneers settled around “The Big Spring” revealed to them by the Cherokee and Chickasaw
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as “the big spring”. Hearing of the abundant water source and plentiful big game, John Hunt, Huntsville’s founder, sought out the spring and settled near it in 1805 on the bluff above, which later […]
Jefferson County, Alabama was once a part of Blount County…here are some early citizens
Jefferson County, Alabama was once a part of Blount County…here are some early citizens UPDATED! The following description of early Jefferson County, Alabama, written in 1887, reveals the names of many early citizens. The territory which constitutes the county of Jefferson is a part of what was formerly known as the county of Blount. Under […]
Removal of Cherokees in Alabama – Transcribed excerpt written in 1935!
Patron+ member story (Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 Congress had passed a law in 1834, providing for the removal of the Cherokees in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, to the Indian Territory. Chief John Ross opposed the […]
Legend of Blue Pond or Woodstock Spring in Calhoun County, Alabama
During the 1930s, the Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. This is a transcribed, unedited, handwritten story […]
PATRON + “When gold was discovered on Cherokee land, the white man pressured them to sell and move west”
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PATRON + Fayette and Marion County -A story of a street killing by a man who escaped punishment
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Story of the Death of Stooka – Brown’s Valley in Blount County, Alabama has a troubled past [pictures]
This story is an excerpt from the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Brown’s Village is a Cherokee village founded about 1790 located on the west side of Brown’s, or Thompson’s Creek, in Marshall County near the site of the present village of Red Hill. Brown’s Valley is a valley extending from the northern part of Blount […]
PATRON – Great photographs of some beautiful old houses in Henry County, Alabama!
Henry County was first proposed to be named Choctawhatchee for the river in that section of the State, but the name finally given on the passage of the act was Henry, in honor of Patrick Henry, the noble Virginia patriot
PATRON + Creek Indian Nation occupied this county for years – forced to evacuate after 1832
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PATRON – Amazing Grace sung in Cherokee Language -beautiful!
Native Cherokees were not only converted to the Christian faith but became preachers and exhorters. Notable among the Christian preachers were John Arch and Thomas J. Meigs, the first being affiliated with the Moravian church and the latter with the Methodist church.
PATRON + Colbert county, Alabama was named for two Chickasaw Indian chiefs
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PATRON – Clarke County, Alabama pioneers did not let obstacles stop them
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PATRON – The highest point in the State of Alabama is in Cleburne County, Alabama
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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1874 -1875
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PATRON – On December 13th Jackson County, Alabama was created – see names of early settlers
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PATRON – After 1802, immigrants flowed into Jackson County, Alabama
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