Searcy Hospital served as a mental health facility from 1900 to 2012, when it was abandoned, but the area has a longer history than…
ELLICOTT'S STONE There is a historical marker East of Hwy 43 and south of Bucks, Alabama, in Mobile County that is the "oldest historical…
This story is also in the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Once Christopher Columbus discovered America, other explorers from…
De Soto Was Refused Indian Maidens To Accompany Him This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories…
MARINE HOSPITAL (U. S.) AT MOBILE The Marine Hospital at Mobile, Alabama was the oldest building used as a Marine Hospital in 1914. It…
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On January 9, 1965 "the battleship USS Alabama was dedicated in Mobile as a World War II memorial. Commissioned in August 1942, the Alabama served primarily…
First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana "On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a…
SEE ALL BOOKS BY DONNA R CAUSEY THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama…
(The following story is the first section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of Mobile, Blakeley, St. Stephens, and Jackson,…
Did you know the Revolutionary War was fought in Alabama? This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten…
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(Transcribed from the Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) CHARLESTON INSURANCE & TRUST CO. Capital 1,000,000 of Dollars all --- ca The…
Edward Patrick Allen, D. D. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1853-1926) Mobile, Alabama Edward Patrick Allen, D. D., Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mobile,…
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD PART II HARFORD DEMOCRAT BEL AIR, MARYLAND. Friday Morning, May 11th , 1888. A native of Harford County,…
This film is so funny now! We discovered this wonderful, historic instructional film about prom etiquette rules produced in 1961 by America’s Junior Miss…
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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LOUIS J. ADLER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1856-1922) Perry and Dallas County, Alabama Louis J. Adler, a merchant, was born June 24, 1856, in Milwaukee,…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V GEORGE MARCUS CRUIKSHANK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1852 Kentucky,…
Read this story and more in: ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) When Alabama was first settled by the French, they…
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE Planters' & Merchants' Bank of Mobile vs. fi fa Robert Cowan and…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! Some words may be offensive to readers today. We have…
Written November 4, 1938 by Ila B. Prine WPA Federal Writers' Project Mobile, Alabama A STORY OF A FISHERMANS LIFE Standing under a china…
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…
Read this story as well as many others in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories Continued below The daughter-in-law of Peter the…
WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854-1920) Tuscaloosa, Alabama Note: Follow the linked articles to see all the other connections this great man…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of the person she interviewed and some words may be…
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