Dismals Canyon in Phil Campbell, Franklin County, Alabama holds much history as well as much naturally pristine beauty. From being a hideout for outlaws…
Our Alabama pioneers had to struggle to put a meal on the table in the early days. (The following transcription is from History of…
Baldwin County celebrated 100 year Courthouse with Masonic Cornerstone Reenactment in 2001 This is a great film of the tremendous crowd, parade, and events…
The first part of a transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899 EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA…
The lands in Madison County were the first surveyed and sold in North Alabama. Prior to the sales in 1809 lands in and around…
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 03, Fall Issue 1946) CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT By …
Established in 1821 when still a part of Pike County, Louisville is one of the oldest towns in Alabama and was the county seat…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…
RECOLLECTIONS OF CAROLINE LEADINGHAM (Written June 8, 1895) Our home and the place of my birth was near Mooresville, Limestone county, Ala. In the…
Churches were important in Early Alabama. Many different religions were established as citizens moved to the state. (Excerpts below were transcribed precisely (with spelling errors…
When The Indians Came To Visit from Gibbons Family News Letter submitted by Dorothy Clark Years ago when our ancestors first came to…
(This is a transcription of a letter from Gen. Thomas Simpson Woodward to editor J. J. Hooper, Esq. in 1858 about Alabama Indians) WINN…
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF FATHER RYAN1 By Kate Coles Donegan (Taken from an undated collection of papers and essays in the collections of Virginia Clay…
MARRIAGES from 1800s See marriages below Marengo County, Alabama This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume…
On this day, December 30th, in 1868, the county of Baker was created from portions of Autauga, Shelby, Bibb, and Perry, by a legislative…
More of this story can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories Burnt Corn Creek is a creek in the…
Design of Alabama State Capitol building When Alabama's Capital was moved to Montgomery. the building was designed by Architect Stephen Decatur Button of Philadelphia. The…
EARLY JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA Jackson County, Alabama was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. Its territory was formed from that…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA By HON. E. A. POWELL CHAPTER I To one who has spent more than half a century, as it…
MAJOR CAMPBELL WALLACE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1806-1895) GEORGIA Major Campbell Wallace was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on December 7, 1806 to Jesse and…
Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his…
Troy is a city in Pike County, Alabama. It was once part of the territory of the Creek Indian lands and was originally known…
The Elks Club was originally formed in New York as the Jolly Corks from the theatrical profession. Elks Club house in Mobile ca. 1900…
JOHN G. AIKEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1803 -1865) Tuscaloosa and Baldwin County, Alabama John Gaston Aiken, lawyer, was born November 29, 1803, in South…
Click to Become a Patron and see stories like this Scottsboro is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, uniquely situated about 30 miles from…
Great book for genealogists as a reference book as well—from Alabama's first historian! Pickett's History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the…
Dueling occurred everywhere in the United States, including Alabama from its earliest history until about 1861, notwithstanding stringent laws against it as a way…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Tecumseh expected a reward from the King of England It's a long journey from the region…
A Forgotten Hero of the Cross REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi (This transcribed excerpt was written before…
Did you know that when the capital of Alabama was moved to Montgomery in 1847, the building burned to the ground only two years…
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