It is amazing what can be found at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Here are some Baldwin Junior High cheerleader pictures from…
Madison County, Alabama settlers believed in education from its earliest days SOME SETTLERS OF EARLY MADISON COUNTY by Thomas Jones Taylor i (1829-1894) I…
TUSKEGEE LAID OFF-NEW MAIL ROUTE-EARLY SETTLERS, AC. AC. Early stories of Macon County The East-half of section 30, township 14, range 24 was conveyed…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! This may be offensive to readers today. We have transcribed…
(Transcribed from the Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi – September 10, 1818) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS, by an act of…
Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly…
Elyton Land Company was once in a building at 20th and Morris Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama In the year 1870 several gentlemen, most of…
YELLOW FEVER (Transcribed from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen) Alabama was first visited by this…
EARLY HISTORY OF TUSKEGEE1 Messrs. Darby and Price, of Tuskegee, the proprietors of Darby's Prophylactic Fluid, have published a small pamphlet, or business circular…
AN INDUSTRIAL PIONEER JAMES MITCHELL (1866-1920) by WILLIAM E. MITCHELL "Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, employees of the Alabama Power Company, many of you…
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING A NEWSPAPER, TO BE ENTITLED THE MONTGOMERY REPUBLICAN Aware, that my new and difficult employment, will subject me to…
(Continued M – W counties) ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were…
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Vine And Olive Colony - Fact & Fiction In 1817, a romantic…
Was there ever a settlement of German farmers in Washington County, Alabama? I discovered the following news articles in an 1891 newspaper about a…
(Continued from A- C counties) ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were…
The land beneath homes and shopping centers in the community of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, Alabama includes many historic sites, including a Revolutionary…
After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers for their service. Men were not the…
FROM TENNESSEE TO TEXAS—THROUGH ALABAMA The 1860 Diary of William Joseph Camp Edited by William R. Snell (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
TUSKEGEE IN OLDEN TIMES1 Frequent references to the early days of our Town, awaken memories, the expression whereof may excite a passing interest. We…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XVII Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
THE BOWIE LETTERS, 1819 and 1821 Edited by Virginia K. Jones Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960…
Most of the downtown Birmingham, Alabama was once William F. Nabers' farm (Excerpt transcribed from Downtown Birmingham Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide, 2nd…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XII Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
( Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) COMMITTED to the Jail of Marion County, on the 20th day of October…
The following facts and information concerning the boats on the Alabama river, that have sunk or been burned since the war, was prepared by…
Colonel Nathaniel Scott petitioned Auburn's Masonic Lodge (Auburn Lodge #76) to sponsor a female educational center in town. Auburn Masonic Female College became the…
Newspapers located at the Alabama Department of Archives and History are a great source of genealogy information. INDEX TO MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA, NEWSPAPERS In…
First Protestant Minister and Early settlers of Washington County, Alabama (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882 by…
