Tag: Alabama history

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1899 News clipping about Tuscaloosa, Alabama citizen Captain H. P. Farrar

Captain H. P. Farrar was a New Yorker who came to Tuscaloosa, Alabama SOURCE (Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899)…

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Simpson Manuscript – On Feb. 4, 1861, these delegates met at the Confederate Conference held in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Vice President Aaron Burr hid in Dismals Canyon in Franklin County, Alabama after killing political rival Alexander Hamilton [pictures]

Dismals Canyon is located in the town of Phil Campbell in the northwestern part of Franklin County, Alabama. Several outlaws have allegedly hidden in the…

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In 1899, Tuscaloosa no longer dreaded an ice famine when the thermometer was 100 degrees in the shade thanks to Tuscaloosa Ice and Light company

(Photograph and transcription from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) TUSCALOOSA ELECTRIC LIGHT & ICE CO. The Tuscaloosa Gas, Electric Light and…