The National Holiday which is known today as Veterans Day was called Armistice Day before 1954. The change in the name came about due…
SEE ALL BOOKS BY DONNA R CAUSEY THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama…
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[Here's an interesting news article from 1910 pleading for the football rivalry between Alabama and Auburn to continue in Birmingham after being suspended.] Alabama…
Mexican Revolution In 1910, a revolution in Mexico began. All across Mexico, volunteers aligned with different factions, and Pancho Villa aligned with Francisco I.…
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Early film of Montgomery in 1914 was discovered in the Alabama State Treasurer's vault. Thankfully, it was turned over to the Alabama Department of Archives and…
The beautiful plantation mansions of Glennville, Alabama have a connection with Auburn University. Glennville was named for Rev. James E. Glenn who came to…
SAM DALEY'S SCHOOL Have you ever heard of Sam Daley's school in Tuscaloosa? I found two articles about it in a 1910 paper and…
The Mary Frances last trip down the Warrior ended in disaster (Transcription from a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A.…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
New from Tuscaloosa News August 27, 1911 ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY WILL SHOW INCREASE J. C. Persons, bursar-registrar of the University of Alabama returned…
While doing some research on something else, as often happens, I discovered an interesting article about Alabama from The Toronto Sunday World November 5,…
Avondale was a company town built east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887. The city was…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST - Sheffield, Alabama has a historic village laid out in the form of the Liberty Bell [films & pics] WWI need…
Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
Some deaths that were reported in Alabama on March 24, 1817 (Transcribed from the Tuscaloosa News March 24, 1817) The Tuscaloosa News March 24,…
Eufaula, phoenix like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Transcribed from The Clayton Record…
THE MONTGOMERY MOTOR CORPS The Montgomery motor corps was a department of the National League for Woman's Service, organized by Mrs. William J. Hannah,…
I imagine the $752 price was quite expensive in 1918 dollars but it sounds great today. I wonder what happened to these car dealerships.…
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![PATRON + Can you believe Sheffield, Alabama has a historic village laid out in the form of the Liberty Bell? [films & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Liberty-Bell-Shaped-Residential-Section-for-Government-Employees-Muscle-Shoals-Alabama-Department-of-Archives-and-History-220x139.jpg)
