W. P. Wallace wrote a series of articles in The Centreville Press about Bibb County, Alabama's history. This one of his transcribed articles transcribed…
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(Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama, September 24, 1910) AN OLD LANDMARK Dear Editor of The Press: Please indulge us space…
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(This was transcribed for the 1st edition of THE CAHABA JOURNAL and it is included here using the same words from as published in…
The trials of a sensational event that took place in Bibb County, Alabama in 1900. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, March 14,…
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Part II of the sensational event that took place in Bibb County 1900. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, June 21, 1900) PRELIMINARY…
This is the final story of what happened to Lilly Gardner and Festus Caddell. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, April 25, 1901)…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II JOEL BARTON LOWERY (b. March 6, 1834 – d.…
Donation Parties - Have you ever heard of them? Donation Parties by Maude Dreisbach Editorial Dept. (WPA Alabama Federal Writer's Project) Written in 1930s…
Photograph Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 Lawler-House-County-Road-11-Talladega-Talladega-County, Alabama PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XVIII The comparative strength of whig and democrat in…
This story has been transcribed from the Niles's Weekly Register, Volumes 54-55 June 23, 1838 ALABAMA COTTON FACTORY The Tuscaloosa Monitor of the 30th…
This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records FREDERICK MONROE…
(Transcribed from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama Jan 14, 1885 -transcribed in the Cahaba Journal Vol I) THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT Immense Loss…
STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION The Capt. Sam Bursts her Boiler and Goes Down (Transcription from Bibb Blade November 26, 1884 in Bibb County Heritage Association…
Excerpt transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama March 13, 1840) COMMITTED To the Jail of Bibb County, on the 11th October, 1839, a…
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Coosa and Cahaba coal fields (Written in 1910) The discovery and original crude workings of various of the mines in the Coosa and Cahaba…
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(Excerpt transcribed from BRIEF HISTORY OF BIBB COUNTY by S. L. Johnson, The Centreville Press) If one will look at a map of Bibb…
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JOSIAH GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1883) Bibb and Tuscaloosa, Alabama Josiah Gorgas, father of William Crawford Gorgas who cured malaria on the Panama Canal,…
MORGAN HOWARD SUBMITTED BY JACQUE OTTS (1821 NC-1850 Bibb County, Alabama) Morgan Howard was son of Edmond and Elizabeth Howard (Ref: Will of Edmond…
(From the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama Jan 14, 1885 -transcribed in the Cahaba Journal Vol I) THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT Immense Loss of…
(Local news transcribed from THE MONTGOMERY, ADVERTISER, Montgomery, Ala., February 7, 1900) THE PASSING THRONG Mr. E. W. deGraffenried of Greensboro, is in the…
Mahan boys and comrades (Written in 1910) The three Mahan boys and their comrades, following the good fight at New Orleans, split up into…
SOME TERRY FAMILIES OF ALABAMA includes a compilation of documented genealogy records, notes and brief biographies of JAMES TERRY (1727- 1799) Alabama descendants, DAVID…
SAMUEL MERNARY ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. Dec. 10, 1853 - d. aft. 1900) Dallas, Shelby and Chilton County, Alabama Samuel Mernary Adams, a…
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