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Did you know Bessemer, Alabama was originally named Brooklyn? [photograph & vintage film]

The Marvel City Bessemer, Alabama was founded in the spring of 1887 as an important industrial center, popularly known as the "Marvel City." It…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + Did you know six years before the Wright Bros. famous flight a manned glider flew 15 feet over Mobile Bay beach in Alabama?

Glider flew in 1893 over Mobile Bay beach The land around Brookley field in Mobile, Alabama has played a part in United States aviation…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – October 1915 – news in Grand Bay of a stranger’s death, severe insect bites, a family devastated by fever, and more. . .

PATRON – October 1915 news in Grand Bay of a stranger's death, severe insect bites, a family devastated by fever, and more. . .…