Tag: Alabama history

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PATRON – Have you ever heard of the dumb supper? It use to be quite popular in Pike County, Alabama

THE DUMB SUPPER (Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration author from Pike County, Alabama) Written by Lois Lynn 11/12/1936 The…

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PATRON – Details of a shootout on 1st Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama on May 21 one hundred and thirty years ago

(Men sometimes settled their differences with guns in early Alabama as this story reveals) From The Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama 5/21/1885 BY ONE BALL…

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On September 30, 1945: Aliceville Camp, a prisoner-of-war camp in Pickens County for members of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Africa Korps, was deactivated.[pics & film]

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PATRON + Anne Newport Royall – A letter written in 1817 describes the frivolity of Huntsville, Alabama & meeting with Major Rose

Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) traveler and author, was one of the first newspaperwomen in America. When her husband died…