Tag: JEFFERSON COUNTY

New Stories

New genealogy book includes names from the early days of Birmingham, Alabama

I started something new specifically for those interested in family research and genealogy in Alabama. Collected genealogy information As I conducted research for interesting…

Patron Past Stories

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…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – May 28, 1874 [old pics] Laws against 21-year-old males overworking, shooting guns at night, loud goats

News from around Alabama from the May 28, 1874 Birmingham Iron Age Whooping cough is prevailing in Gadsden. Gadsden, Alabama The Gadsden Times of…