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PATRON – Alabama Bible Records: Edmondson Family Baldwin County, Alabama
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Which county is named for an Alabama Daniel Boone? (Transcribed from Newspaper Nov. 18, 1885
(Alabama’s Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at the battle of Burnt Corn, in which he commanded a company. – Do you know his name?) BATTLE OF BURNT CORN (The following has been transcribed from The Southern Star […]
PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (D – L counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1867
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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1873
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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 – Butler County, Alabama – 1820 – list of voters in the count and result of election for sheriff
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PATRON – Legal notices of White, Smith, Wilson, Johnson, & McLaughlin December 1865 in Perry County
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PATRON – News from Uniontown, Perry County, Ala. Dec. 21st, 1865 & Confederacy news
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My first job at Sylacauga cotton Mill – with [rare film footage of Avondale Mills in 50’s]
[Many people in the Sylacauga area around the time of WWII can probably relate to this story.] As told to Donna R. Causey by Pearl Mims February, 2014 The first job I every had was at the cotton mill in Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama when I was only seventeen. My sister Evelyn and I got jobs […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST Marion, Perry County, Alabama was once called Muckle’s Ridge
Note: The city of Marion was first named Muckle’s Ridge, but was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married to a local girl in 1840 and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, was born in Perry County. She attended the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Many […]
Kenan’s Mill, Dallas County, Alabama – Do you believe it is haunted?
Zebulon Butler, an early settler of the Valley Creek Community in Selma, Alabama built a mill on the swift-rushing waters of Valley Creek to ground meal, grits and corn. The mill was acquired by the Colonel Thomas Kenan and his wife Mary Rand, in the 1830s. The Kenan family continuously owned by the mill until […]
General Sam Dale gives eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s visit to Alabama in 1811
General Sam Dale gives an eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s visit to Alabama in 1811 Scroll down to read story The Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, came among the Native Americans in the south to incite them to hostilities against the whites. He was the emissary of the British, with whom the federal government was at […]
PATRON – Nall, Jones, Gouldman and Richardson estates in Perry County, Ala. 1865
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Baldwin, a county in Alabama where the Court House was stolen [film and photographs]
(This is an almost unbelievable story but is true as local citizens agree. The story of what took place is recounted in the films.) In the first days of Baldwin County, the Town of McIntosh Bluff (now in Mobile County, Alabama, west of Baldwin County) on the Tombigbee River was the County seat. In 1810, Blakeley, (now […]
PATRON – Commissioners sale land in Perry County, Alabama in 1866
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The city of Rockford in Coosa County once had another name
(Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans Brewer, 1887) Campbell, Lovelady, and Downing were appointed commissioners for Coosa County, Alabama by Act of the Legislature, and they were authorized to purchase 160 acres of land for locating a courthouse, and to levy a tax for buildings, did nothing toward organization. 1833 […]
PATRON – On May 17, 1836, Sumter County, Alabama, Advertisements in Voice of Sumter included runaways
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PATRON – Marriages in Clarke County, Alabama — December and January 1856
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Archaeologists believe Geneva County, Alabama was inhabited for over 13,000 years
Archaeologists believe that humans have lived in Geneva County, Alabama for at least 13,000 years, perhaps much longer. During the coldest periods of the Ice Age, the Gulf Coast region would have been one of the few areas of North America that could be comfortably inhabited by homo sapiens. Evidence of earliest humans buried in […]
Six generations of Isaac Abercrombie of Perry County, Alabama
Isaac Abercrombie was a pioneer of Perry County, Alabama (born 1748 Scotland – died 1825 Alabama) This book is a compilation of six generations of his descendants. It includes sources such as wills, deeds, Bible records, etc. Many descendants moved west to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Arkansas. The Birds’ Nest, U.S. Route 43, Vilula, Perry […]
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 + Did you know that “Pat Garrett” who killed “Billy the Kid” was born in Chambers County, Alabama in 1850
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PATRON + Sam Daley’s school in Tuscaloosa – Have you ever heard of it?
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PATRON + 100-year old Baldwin County Cornerstone opened 2001 – (see film of events, people & parade)
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PATRON – Clarke County, Alabama pioneers did not let obstacles stop them
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PATRON + History of “Indian towns in Coosa County” written around 1877
[This transcription is from a book written ca. 1870 and includes many places of “Indian towns in Coosa County” and names of people who lived near them. Warning: It has been transcribed exactly as written in 1870s and includes language that would not be used today] There were many “Indian Towns in Coosa County, Alabama.” […]
PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1876
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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 – Covington County, Alabama was once called Jones County
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