GLENNVILLE PLANTATION Glennville, Russell County, Alabama Glennville Plantation was built 1842-44 by Col. Americus Mitchell who came to the town of Glennville, just…
In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the…
The Indian Legend of Natural Bridge, Winston County, Alabama by G. Samek During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview…
(Transcribed from The Hamilton Appeal, Hamilton, Alabama January 17, 1896) LOCAL PERSONAL NEWS Mr. James Bostic, of Goldmine, was in town last Tuesday. Deputy…
(Transcribed from The Haleyville Journal Alabama June 9, 1914 REMAINS OF MRS. RAY INTERRED The remains of Mrs. W. M. Ray who died in…
(Transcribed from The Haleyville Journal Alabama June 9, 1914) IN A PERSONAL VEIN Mat Cardis is in the city for a few days. Sam…
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
Selma in Dallas County, Alabama is well-known for it's history as a center for civil-rights struggles, but Dallas County also plays an integral part…
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS…
New Town/West End addition to Tuscaloosa in 1821 A little after this period of time, in 1821, that part of the Tuscaloosa city limits…
(Transcribed from The Hamilton Appeal, Hamilton, Alabama January 17, 1896) CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. Simpson of Decatur COMMISSIONS COURT Jason P. Ford,…
GIRLS' PATRIOTIC LEAGUE ALABAMA The Junior branch of the National League for Woman's Service, Montgomery, the Girls' Patriotic League, was active during 1917-19, organized…
A BUSY DAY'S WORK (Transcribed from The Times-Argus, Selma, Alabama January 27, 1870 – Originally published in the American Agriculturist) In many families,…
Barbecued chicken cooked in a pit Recipe for 6 chickens, weighing 1 ½ lbs. each. Sauce 2 c. tomato catsup 1 c. vinegar 4…
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This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume I…
The Skyline Farms project, established by the federal government in Jackson County in 1934, was one of the more unique socioeconomic experiments in Alabama…
Remember Those Cold Winters? by Dorothy Graham Gast I agree that winters are not as cold as they were in the 40s and 50s.…
Did you see her? Most people who have lived in Jefferson County, Alabama for a while have heard the ghost story about the 'lady of…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Cherokee Indians, once a powerful nation inhabiting the fine country from the Ohio to the Tennessee…
Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens PART V - Lover's leap (continued) PART V (Read at the Centennial Celebration, May 6, 1899. It was published…
Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," was born near LaFayette, Alabama on May 13, 1914. His real name is Joe Louis Barrow. Held world heavyweight…
LETTER WRITTEN IN 1885 - FROM MISSISSIPPI FROM S.M. SMYTHE Recollections of One of the Earliest Settlers of Calhoun county Baldwin, Miss., May 11,…
Film from the past (1937) includes scenes of Birmingham and the beginning of many Alabama state parks.
ENTERING EARLY WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER XX (from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886) by Hon. E. A.…
Photographs of wounded veterans from World War II From time to time we find and publish photographs that might be of interest to families…
The people of Bullock County, Alabama were very creative when it came to survival as this invention to bring water down from the mountain shows.…
This biography can be found in This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V and more of his…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume I - IV: Four Volumes in One (Volume 1- Having made peace with…
![Glennville Plantation, Russell County, Alabama was truly a majestic mansion [see film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Glennville-plantation11-e1402251314914.jpg)
![“Today, this old cotton mill village in Huntsville has” been revitalized [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Going-to-work-at-Merrimack-mills-Huntsville-Alabama-ca.-1913-220x154.jpg)
![“This was an ingenious way to get water” in Bullock County in the early days – [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Railroad-To-Spring-Showing-Water-Pouring-Into-Bucket-Octavia-Adkinson-House-Wilson-Road-2-e1401580505955-220x298.jpg)
