When Birmingham was a young city, this is what she looked like.... Notes about photos in the film. Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger…
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Originally, I’m from Tuscaloosa by Jean Butterworth Early Tuscaloosa Memories 1935-1942 How many times in conversation with strangers or friends do I say, “Originally…
WARNING - This transcribed story was written in 1930 and some language or words used regarding the Cherokees may be offensive today. Construction of…
The Pettway family held the land of Gee's Bend until 1895 when they sold to it Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from…
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I remember the days when my grandmother and mother would make jelly. It was an all day process but there was always wonderful aromas…
HISTORIC TORNADO OUTBREAK ALABAMA March 21-22, 1932 (FROM: DARKEST HOURS by Jay Robert Nash) On March 21, 1932, Marion, Alabama was the first…
ALONG THE CORDUROY ROAD The old home place stood among large oak trees at the top of a hill, more of a rise…
News from the Times Daily, Florence, Alabama November 17, 1931 In the midst of the Great Depression, with unemployment everywhere, the hope of any…
The Wooleys Located in Northport, Alabama This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI- Scroll to bottom…
Ghost stories or a part of Alabama's past. Below are three unedited stories from 1939 written by a WPA writer who interviewed three African-Americans…
Sharecropping came into wide use in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877). The South had been devastated by war and planters…
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…
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Hueytown Debate Team April 4, 1939 (from Times Daily, Florence, Alabama April 4, 1939) Members of the Hueytown high school debating team, shown above,…
The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story In the years 1935-1941 in the…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
These coal miners from Birmingham and Walker County, Alabama had no idea that when they went to work one cold morning in February of…
A cemetery is a strange place to find a miniature red-brick house complete with windows, fireplace, front porch with a mailbox. There is such…
From 1946 Avondale Sun (October – December BPonline) Gingerbread Lollipops 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 1-2 teaspoon…
Scroll down to read story SINGING SCHOOLS (Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) author from Pike County, Alabama) Written by…
I had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing an extraordinary lady who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Ramsey High School, and went on to…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell ca. 1938) Continued below Haunted Houses Near Tuscumbia written ca. 1938 by…
Sturdivant Hall By Joe McKnight As a pre-teen growing up in Selma, AL., I once broke into Sturdivant Hall, an ante-bellem mansion which these…
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