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The Order of Knights of Pythias aim was to heal the wounds between the North and South and promote friendship among men and relieve suffering.…
Phil Campbell located in Franklin County, Alabama, twelve miles south of Russellville, was founded in 1857. Disgraceful way the iron horse arrived In the…
The information and illustrations below are excerpts from a book written in 1887 as a prospectus for future investors in Tuscaloosa. The Tuskaloosa Coal,…
There has been a rumor that slave tunnels are under a mansion in Tuscaloosa. A news crew investigated the story in a three-part video at…
I think it is always interesting how time has changed our ideas regarding medicine. I love old books and found the following in an…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
The "city" of Birmingham was incorporated by the legislature, December 19, 1871. Birmingham was founded in July 1871, through the merger of three pre-existing…
Here is the story from the June 27, 1891 Times Daily newspaper in Florence, Alabama. STARTLING CHANGE Alabama Takes the First Place long held…
RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Unusual Weights and Measures from 1880s and today's equivalents & other tips Household hints from the past: "A delicious whipped cream substitute…
(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…
President James Abram Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881. He lingered for eleven weeks and died on September 19, 1881, at Long Branch,…
The information and illustrations below are excerpts from a book written in 1887 as a prospectus for future investors in Tuscaloosa. Tuskaloosa (Tuscaloosa) is…
Some News From The Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama 5/21/1885 Nineteen Oxen Lost Mr. W. J. Morgan, of Walker county, was in the city…
Some State of Alabama News in 1880 (Transcribed from The Bibb Blade (Six Mile, Alabama) April 1, 1880) Florence is to be lit with…
Patron – Personal Notes from the Shelby County Iron Works, Alabama - 1883 (Excerpt from The Shelby Chronicle, Columbiana, Alabama, Nov. 22, 1883) DOTS…
PERSONALS (Excerpt from The Tallapoosa New Era, Dadeville, Alabama, January 6, 1887) Judge J. M. Chilton, of Opelika, was in Dadeville Monday. Messrs. William…
The Iron Age was a Birmingham newspaper owned and edited by W. C. Garrett and Frank V. Evans in the early days of Birmingham.…
BLOUNT COUNTY SHERIFF & MORTGAGE SALES (Transcribed extracts from Blount County News-Dispatch, Blountsville, Alabama, March 19, 1879) To satisfy a fi-fa in my hands,…
Patron – Some Land for rent, taxes and Probate court and Sheriff's sale in Tallapoosa County January 6, 1887 (Excerpt from The Tallapoosa New…
NOTICES FOR PUBLICATION (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal (Bessemer, Alabama) Dec. 20, 1888) LAND OFFICE AT MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA November 21st, 1888 Notice is…
ABOUT TOWN (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal (Bessemer, Alabama) Dec. 20, 1888) A wrong impression having gone abroad, Dr. S. W. Talley, the dentist,…
PERSONAL Note: Some of the Personal mentions were omitted because the newspaper was too faded and they were unreadable. (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal…
Local news and information from Anniston October 20, 1883 (Transcribed from Anniston Hot Blast, Anniston, Alabama, October 20, 1883) Death of a child The…
News gathered from Selma, Rome, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Birmingham News –October 20, 1883 (Transcribed from Anniston Hot Blast, Anniston, Alabama, October 20, 1883)…
![PATRON – Knights of Pythias was established in 1864 to promote friendship between north and south [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/OBriens_Opera_House2.jpg)
![PATRON – Did you know these things about the town of Phil Campbell, Alabama? [film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dismals-canyon-220x144.jpg)
![PATRON + This is what Tuscaloosa, Alabama looked like around 1887 [vintage prints]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TUSCALOOSA-WHARF-220x140.jpg)
![PATRON + The Old Tavern in Tuscaloosa, Alabama was saved! [pictures and film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TUSCALOOSA-STREET-1887-220x137.jpg)
