Tag: Alabama history

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PATRON + Films, pictures and story of the 1920s and 1930s, and memories of Perry and Dallas County, Alabama

MEMORIES By W. O. Perry (Please Note: This transcribed story was written in 1927 and contains language which is not appropriate to use today)…

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PATRON – Butler/King and Stallworth/ Carstarphen marriages and more in 1879 Conecuh County, Alabama news

(Transcribed from Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama, September 11, 1879) NOTICE – Mr. D. F. Salter takes pleasure in informing his friends of…

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PATRON – The picturesque, historic town of Cullman, Alabama was hit by EF4 tornado in 2011, but did not let it break them [see photographs]

Cullman is the county seat of Cullman County, in the north-central part of the county, on Brindley Mountain, about 2 miles west of Little…

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PATRON + Remarkable 1876 letter from Texas to Alabama mentions how former resident Walker K. Baylor died in Texas in 1845

Letter from Tyler, Texas March 2, 1876, printed in the Birmingham Iron Age March 23, 1876 -from Thomas Smith to Frank Grace. This is…

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PATRON + Designer of the Alabama flag and the parents of a man in Montgomery went to Abraham Lincoln’s wedding

HISTORIC HOMES By AUGUSTA MARTIN BUTLER (Mrs. Eugene Butler written in 1930) (transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly Volume 1, No. 2, Summer Issue…

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PATRON – The Butler County News – 1914 includes personal news from the community of New Home about visits from relatives.

(Excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) NEW HOME Mr. Ed Tillman, of Opp, visited his aunt, Mrs. J.…