Potential schools and militia drills were in the news in Jacksonville, Alabama Nov. 1, 1855 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . (Excerpts transcribed…
Some local Clarke County, Alabama news from 1887 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . (Excerpts transcribed from The South Alabamian, Jackson, Clarke County,…
Do you agree with at least ten of these statements? Then you must live in a small town Historic Tuscumbia, Alabama 2010 by Carol…
In my personal genealogy research, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries, as well as considerable expense copying, records only to discover…
Notices below include witnesses names who lived nearby SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . (Excerpts transcribed from Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, January…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) STATE OF ALABAMA – MARSHALL COUNTY Court of Probate, December…
Names of elected and candidates around Calhoun County in 1855 are included as well as local newspaper agents. SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . .…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) GREENE ACADEMY – The military feature is proposed to be…
A great Alabama story about Rachel Donelson, Wife of President Andrew Jackson Rachel Donelson, Wife of President Andrew Jackson, Was A Pioneer Of Madison…
Progress on the railroad was good news for Clarke County, Alabama on October 1, 1887 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . (Excerpts transcribed…
The following advertisements are from the Mountain Eagle, Cordova, Alabama, January 10, 1923 - How many businesses still exist? More interesting and sometimes humorous…
Cooking hints from old cookbook.... “To avoid heating up the kitchen to brown meringue, heat a heavy iron skillet and turn upside down over…
COL. THOMAS WILLIAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1825 – 1903) Virginia, Elmore and Coosa County, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev.…
DAVID SCOTT Biography and Genealogy (April 5, 1803- August 8, 1868) Perry, Tuscaloosa/Tuskaloosa, and Bibb County, Alabama. David Scott, merchant and manufacturer, was born…
Fairfax, Vt., over the remains of a young man accidentally shot: O fatal gun, why was it him That you should kill so dead?…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) When Little Warrior was killed, the letter he was carrying from the British at Malden to…
Remember those summer days when --- you spent evenings catching fireflies with your brothers and sisters while your parents visited family and friends. you…
CORN CHOWDER ¼ pound salt pork 1 onion, sliced 3 medium potatoes 1 pint boiling water 1 green pepper 1 quart strained tomatoes Salt…
Summer job in 1955 by Clifford Dobyns I was discharged from the Army in 1955 and it was time to get a job. My…
(Below are some photographs with information I discovered while doing some research that might be beneficial to other researchers. Subscribe to the daily email…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Columbia Breeze, Columbia, Alabama August 25, 1892) TAX NOTICE Persons subject to municipal taxes upon property, should return the assessment…
(TRANSCRIBED FROM The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 02, No. 03, Fall Issue 1940) RECOLLECTIONS OF WILLIAM L. YANCEY By Joel Barnett (The letter reproduced…
ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Removal includes many of the speeches, letters and methods used by the U. S. Government to remove the Native Americans from…
Controversial calls reveal difficulties before instant replay in football Transcribed from The Tuscaloosa News -November 16, 1937 We look upon the Crimson Tide with…
From New York Journal ca. 1908 To Polish Wood Floors ---- Take a strong boiled coffee and strain it twice through a fine strainer,…
ALABAMA MILITIA, ELECTION RETURNS, 1821 At the originally reported election for militia officers in the 24th Regiment of Infantry, (being the Montgomery County command,)…
Continued - The following has been transcribed from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society: New series Volume 4 By Alabama Historical Society 1904 THE…
SOURCE (Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) The Grand Masters of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama…
MUSTER ROLL of Captain Rush Elmore's Company of the Alabama, Volunteers, commanded by Colonel B. Peyton ordered into service of the United States by…
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