THE BOWIE LETTERS, 1819 and 1821 Edited by Virginia K. Jones Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960…
(Transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Peacock and sons Clarence and Henry of River…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
ORIGINAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY MARRIAGE LICENSES (The County seat of Montgomery County as of these dates, was located at Fort Jackson, in the…
In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
News from April 21, 1900. Besides the election results of April 1900 for the State of Alabama, The Pratt City Herald on April 21,…
DRURY ALLEN, SR BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1777 – 1857) Clarke County, Alabama Drury Allen, Sr. was a pioneer to Alabama, born Nov. 26, 1777…
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Train wreck at Woodstock, Alabama - Shannon Hollon I remember as a child my late grandmother telling me of this deadly train wreck…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
The Iron Age was a Birmingham newspaper owned and edited by W. C. Garrett and Frank V. Evans in the early days of Birmingham.…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I JOHN C. D. 'MAT' TROTT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1809…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Pushmataha Offers Assistance After Fort Mims was destroyed, the Red Sticks were in a high state…
During the Great Depression in America, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight…
JAMES B. SIMPSON Biography and Genealogy (Nov. 23, 1857 - Jan. 1898) Greenville and Montgomery County, Alabama James B. Simpson or "Jim Simpson," as…
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Yellow fever epidemics were particularly difficult in Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama during 1853 and 1870s. Recently, a mass burial site was uncovered in Montgomery,…
THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in this great KINDLE Book. Immediate download! Dothan was a…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I OBEDIAH LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1801 d. aft.…
SAMUEL NOBLE A Sketch by His Daughter, Mrs. Kate Q. Roberts1 Samuel Noble, pioneer of the iron industry in the South and prophet of…
On November 22, 1989, Kathryn Thornton, a native of Montgomery and graduate of Auburn University, became the first woman to fly on a military…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Andrew Jackson is often credited with the enforcement of the Native-Americans removal from…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of…
Store closings and social distancing were practiced in October 1918 to help eradicate the Spanish flu which became an epidemic. (Transcribed from The Montgomery…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I DORANTON PATTON NEWTON LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812 –…
This biography can be found in Alabama Descendants of ELISHA COTTINGHAM (ca. 1755-ca. 1820 and Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1)…
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