Tag: Alabama history

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Notorious Robber Strikes Fear In The Hearts Of Early Pioneers

This story can also be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: A Collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories  After the opening of roads through the…

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Surnames – Simonton, Steagall, Brown, Smith, Espy, and many others visited during Easter of 1920 around Abbeville

(Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama…

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This personal diary of Alabama pioneers from 1816 reveals what life was like in surveying the wilderness of Alabama for a place to settle

(Imagine what it was like traversing Alabama alone when it was a wilderness. You can hear the tension in Richard Breckenridge's words as he…