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Before The Federal Road – Lorenzo Dow made his way through the wilderness

This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2)  French trade from Mobile was principally by…

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PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 17 enumeration of Talladega’s first legal highways & residences

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PATRON – Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama

During 1937, the  Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…

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Anne Newport Royall – the tornado of 1822, cure snake bite, politics & the day all the citizens of Huntsville fled town

Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was by some accounts the first professional woman journalist in the United States. When her…

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PATRON + The Alabama Territorial Government met- first Acts passed included a divorce

The transcribed Acts below, which include an Act for a divorce,  were passed when the Government first met on the 3rd and 4th of February, 1818. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, FIRST GENERAL…