(Transcribed from The Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama, January 31, 1856) PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC and ANTI-KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION, Held in Montgomery, Jan. 8, 1856 Pursuant to notice, and in accordance with the call heretofore made, the delegates from the several counties to the Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing State Convention, assembled in the hall […]
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PATRON + President of US did not want Muscle Shoals, Alabama settled
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PATRON + Injured, robbed and traveling on foot and still, they made it to Alabama in 1791
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PATRON – Biography: Captain Charles Drennen, M. D. born Sept. 6, 1842 – photograph
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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 the river, but there was a land route to Fort Toulouse, which doubtless joined the one from Pensacola, running through thick forests south of the Alabama to the same place. The […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 12 – Indian Occupancy of Talladega
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PATRON – Biography: Isaac E. Young (bef. 1841 – 1871)
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PATRON + Gov. John Gayle was a very popular governor of Alabama.
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PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 10 Indian occupancy – confrontation with the whites
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PATRON – Biography: Catherine Brown – born ca. 1800 – According to some historians, she is Alabama’s equivalent of Pocahontas
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PATRON + Biography: James Adair was born 1709 in the Alabama Indian Nation
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PATRON + Biography: Joab Lawler, born June 12, 1796
JOAB LAWLER BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1796 – 1838) North Carolina and Madison, Shelby, Bibb, Coosa, Talladega Counties, Alabama Joab Lawler, public official and a representative in Congress, was born June 12, 1796, in Monroe County, N. C., and died May 8, 1838. in Washington, D. C. His parents moved to Tennessee about 1806; and in […]
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Walter Melville Drennen born 1851 – photograph
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PATRON + Biography: Mrs. Wm. B. Alexander (April 21, 1834 – May 24, 1894)
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Imagine moving 33 Family members, 500 miles from Alabama in the 1830’s
[This is quite a story that reveals what travel was like in 1830] THE TRIP by BUD and TERRY ANDERSON Excerpted and paraphrased by Pamela Anderson Thompson (posted on Ancestry.com) They carried all their possessions with them Sometime between 1832 and 1834 a small caravan crossed the Sabine River out of northwestern Louisiana and rolled […]
Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 11 Indian occupancy – myths about the Battle of Talladega?
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XI INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA The battle of Talladega, fought between the hostile Creek Indians and eighteen hundred Tennessee soldiers under General Jackson at eight o’clock on the morning of Nov. 9, 1813, between the city spring and the iron furnace, at Talladega, lasted […]
PATRON + Biography: Robert A. Goodloe, born March 8, 1882
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Beautiful Paint Rock Valley, Alabama “Little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah” [pictures and story]
PAINT ROCK VALLEY, ALABAMA PIONEERS (posted to public stories Ancestry.com by genealogygeek) Flanked by steep mountains and threaded by a meandering river, Paint Rock Valley in the northeast corner of Alabama is one of the most beautiful valleys in the state. Lush and green, it has been called “a little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah”, which is […]
PATRON+ Amazing story of courage of some early settlers of Alabama
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PATRON + Gold fever strikes in Georgia
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Speculators and Squatters enter the Tennessee Valley around 1804
The rich lands in the Tennessee Valley were prized by speculators long before its actual settlement. When America’s independence from England was declared, and the Treaty of Paris guaranteed the country’s control over the trans-Appalachian west, speculators began to eye the forested bluffs and valleys of northern Alabama. While speculators dreamed of financial gain, squatters […]
PATRON + Historic news article from 1877 recalls the beginning of Tuskegee, Alabama
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Sketch of Pettus’ Brigade by Gen. Edmund Winston Pettus of Selma
SKETCH OF PETTUS’ BRIGADE. By Gen. Edmund Winston Pettus,1 Of Selma. (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) Head Qrs. Pettus Brigade,2 Camp near Dalton, Georgia March 17th 1864 Col. W. H. Fowler Richmond, Va. Colonel: – Your letter of the 8th inst. with circulars enclosed, was received yesterday. I hope you will be successful in the […]
Longest period of peace with Indians before 1812 occurred when a member of George Washington’s staff was Indian agent
[Col. Hawkins, a member of President George Washington’s staff and aristocrat, held the longest period of peace with the Creek Indians prior to 1812. I wonder how he managed that? Here is his story] Colonel Benjamin Hawkins was born in Warren County, N. C., August 15, 1754, died June 6, 1816. He was on George […]
PATRON+ President Monroe invites chiefs to meet
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Huntsville, Alabama has a long history
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the 5th section of a news article written in 1817 which describes some early towns of Alabama. It was published in 1817 when Alabama was still a Territory and first printed in the New York Herald, then copied in the Alabama Republican, and finally published […]
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+ Creeks Were Destitute before Removal
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Actress Lillian Russell discovered the anguish of chigger bites in Alabama – funny story
Jackson Hotel at Blount Springs ca. 1900 Blount Springs – summer resort in rural setting “Blount Springs’s mineral springs and rural setting made it a summer resort for thousands of wealthy people from Alabama,Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and more from 1820 to the 1930s. Some came to the mountain region from as far away as […]
PATRON+ Native-Americans had a right to refuse removal
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