Patron Past Stories

PATRON + Jackson’s Oak – can you imagine the stories it could tell?

Jackson's Oak is located in Historic Village Point Preserve in Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. This giant tree, which is 95 feet tall, with a…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – Living conditions were difficult in early steel days – this film & vintage photographs tell the tale

[These photographs of Birmingham, Alabama were taken in 1936.] Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. Most of the original settlers were of English…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chap. 2 -Court site owned by colored man & medals from King George found

PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver Chapter 2 Much history is entombed in court house records. After these official legal…

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PATRON + Historic letter validates & describes the University of Alabama Cadet Corps participation in the Civil War

UNIVERSITY CADET CORPS (transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 01, Spring Issue 1943) (In June, 1903, correspondence was conducted between Mr.…