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Newspaper accounts from 1837 about Creeks’ removal from Alabama.
“The Creek Nation was once one of the largest and most powerful Indian groups in the Southeast.” Much of their land was lost as the federal government sought land for white settlement after the American Revolution, through cessions, treaties and other arrangements between Chiefs and agents of the federal government. William McIntosh (Alabama Department of […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST -An ancient lost Native American town Abihka [see pics & films] in Alabama has close ties to Henryetta, Oklahoma
Abihka was one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century “Chiefdom of Coosa.” The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom near what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. It was inhabited from about 1400 […]
PATRON+ Creek land in Alabama was ceded in 1802
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PATRON – Biography: S. O. Eggleston (ca. 1793 – d. August 7, 1874)
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PATRON – Agents, Candidates, Thank you & a speech fill the news in Jacksonville, Alabama Nov. 1, 1855
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PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST A great Alabama story about Rachel Donelson, Wife of President Andrew Jackson,
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Amazing pictures of the early Presbyterian schools, churches and missions in Alabama
Continued – The following has been transcribed from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society: New series Volume 4 By Alabama Historical Society 1904 THE HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ALABAMA PRIOR TO 1826. By The Rev. James H. B. Hall, Birmingham Part IV We are now prepared for the reception of the following […]
Some historic photographs & information of early 20th century Native Americans in Alabama
Below are some early Native American pictures at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Can you add additional information about the photographs? Choctaw Indian women and babies ca. 1920 from History of Livingston, Alabama collection Q8977 Apache chief Myeta and Hannah Eskiminzin and family at the Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama. May 8, 1893 […]
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Judge John Coleman Carmichael born July 2, 1861 with photograph
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Historian Albert J. Pickett defends his work to Gen Woodward in this letter Feb. 28, 1858
There were evidently some disagreements about historical events and people between Gen. Woodward and Col. Pickett as can be seen in the letter below. (This is a transcribed letter from Albert J. Pickett to General Woodward about his remarks concerning his recently published book about the state of Alabama in response to some criticisms by […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IV
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IV- 1 Michael Jefferson Bulger Tallapoosa County Michael Jefferson Bulger (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Planter, Confederate Army officer and state senator, Michael Jefferson Bulger was the son of Pierce and Sarah A. Bulger. He was born February 13, 1806, in Richland District, South […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention -Part II
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part II – 1 William Hodges Barnes Chambers County Upper left corner, William H. Barnes, Composite photograph at Alabama Department of Archives and History Son of Isaac and Ruth Barnes, William Hodges was born in Monroe County, Georgia, April 21, 1824, and died July 29, 1887, […]
“Have you ever heard of Captain John Linder from Switzerland”who settled in the Alabama wilderness
Prior to becoming the Alabama Territory on August 15, 1817, the whole area of Alabama was an immense wilderness, with American trading-posts on the east upon the Oconee, and those of Spain upon the south and west, while it was uninhabited by whites as far as the distant Cumberland settlements on the north. Captain John […]
PATRON – A death and fight took place at the Battle House, in Mobile, Alabama in 1856
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“Indian Trails and Early Roads in Alabama” – story written in 1900
Indian Trails and Early Roads written in 1900 by Peter J. Hamilton Scroll down to read story (Unedited Transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous.. Volume 1 by Alabama Historical Society) Roads made Roman history, and with the development of roads everywhere comes the evolution of a country. A wagon road in the settlement […]
PATRON + Alabama Belonged To France For Sixty-five Years
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PATRON + Some of the founders of Union Springs, Alabama written in 1883
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Simpson Manuscript – It took 16 ballots before Montgomery, Alabama was declared the capital
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala,, Printers THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR REMOVAL At the election in the fall of 1845 the people voted on these propositions and they were carried. The total popular vote for […]
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below…. When war finally broke out between England and France in 1752 the Chickasaws remained true to the English, and Bienville’s successor, the Marquis De Vaudreuil, determined […]
PATRON – Anecdotes and burials of the old graves in Tuscumbia’s Oakwood Cemetery, Alabama
Anecdotes and burials of the old graves in Tuscumbia’s Oakwood Cemetery, Alabama
PATRON – Sand Mountain Melungeon Families – some believe Elvis Presley was one
(Transcribed by Donna R. Causey) SAND MOUNTAIN MELUNGEON FAMILIES A DNA PERSPECTIVE FROM WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH AND JEWS AMONG THE INDIANS by DONALD N. YATES. Sand Mountain is a flat-topped extension of the Cumberland Plateau stretching over a hundred miles along the Tennessee River in the states of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Its […]
PATRON – Do you believe this account of DeSoto’s march across Alabama is correct?
The males of the Cherokees, in ancient times, were larger and more robust than any other of our natives; whilst their women were tall, erect and of a delicate frame with perfect symmetry
PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST Why was there a mystery about John Hunt the sheriff, founder of Huntsville?[film & photographs]
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PATRON + This Alabama historic Native American site is still surrounded by controversy today
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PATRON + The word Alabama, Jewish origin? Have you heard this story?
This story was written in 1858 by Gen. Thompson Simpson Woodward of the Alabama militia. He was in Alabama from very early days
PATRON + Biography: John Monroe Anderson born March 3, 1834 – photograph
JOHN MONROE ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1834 – 1904) Calhoun and Montgomery County, Alabama John Monroe Anderson, a planter, was born March 3, 1834, in Monroe County, Tennessee, the son of John, Sr., and March (Coker) Anderson, the former a native of Virginia, the latter a native of Tennessee, His parents moved at an early […]
PATRON – Native Americans, The McGillivrays, Weatherford, David Tate and Sam Moniac stories about them written in 1874
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PATRON + General Sam Houston, the first and third president of the Republic of Texas, married an Alabama native
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PATRON – Did you know these things about the town of Phil Campbell, Alabama? [film]
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