Click here to see the paperback version of Alabama Footprints Confrontation is on sale for $5.49 (List price $12.97) just in time for Christmas…
WARNING: This transcribed news article is graphic. HEADLINES FROM THE FLORENCE TIMES DAILY October 6, 1905 KILLS HIMSELF IN DESPONDENCY Old and Highly Respected…
(I never thought about this before, but I bet it happens a lot.) A Pastor has to eat some strange meals. Here are some…
(Transcribed from Short Sketches of Jackson County, W. P. A. story from Alabama Department of Archives and History,) AVONDALE MILLS Ollie Rudder (white) Stevenson,…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 NON-RESIDENT NOTICE J. H. Stewart, Complainant vs. Ida Stewart, Defendant, Circuit Court…
Searching through records in dark attics and basements and wandering through old cemeteries for a trace of an elusive ancestor can be challenging. A…
The Dawson-Vaughan House in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama was the home of Elodie (Todd) Dawson, Abraham Lincoln's half sister-in-law, Elodie Breck Todd was the daughter…
{Coosa County was a very large county in the center of the state in early Alabama. The following is an excerpt from Rev. George…
PERSONAL NAMES IN NEWS ABSTACTS FROM TIMES DAILY DEC. 15, 1894 FLORENCE, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA Died in Texas The subjoined letter is published by…
During WWII, several Alabama small towns manufactured high explosives for the War. Here is a news article from June, 1941 that reveals where the…
Doctor P. P. Salter 343 Eufaula Street by Gertha Conric (or Corric) Eufaula, Alabama April 26, 1939 “He calls no hour of day or…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 INSIDE STUFF A column of Sports of Interest to Tri-Cities fans Politics…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE RECIPES Buttermilk Cake Two cups of sugar, two of chopped raisins, two of buttermilk, one-half cup of shortening, four cups…
Antiquities of Bibb (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama January 11, 1900) Adverting further to the representatives of Bibb County, in the general…
September 8, 1881 - The Tin Man of Birmingham – I wonder how much of his work is still on buildings in Birmingham? (Transcribed…
The Rutland Cemetery Colbert County, Alabama by Carolyn Weaver This paper on The Rutland Cemetery Is submitted by Carolyn Weaver, In partial fulfillment of…
Here are some humorous epitaphs from the West Some Boothill epitaphs: Carson City, Nevada, epitaph of a horse thief. "He found a rope and…
[Transcribed from the Baltimore Sun via the TIMES DAILY, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama August 4, 1894] In a 1894 speech Hon. Jos. Wheeler of…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XII INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA Slowly the Indian saw the net of the…
PEOPLE MENTIONED IN TIMES DAILY DEC. 15, 1894 FLORENCE, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA Mr. and Mrs. J. A. H. Hauerwas have been quite ill at…
MONDAY MUSINGS: Thoughts from a 1919 newspaper All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and a spoonful of love exceeds…
The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931. At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours. It was dedicated…
By the year 1816, there were fifteen hundred inhabitants at St. Stephens. Much money was invested, diversified industries were set afoot, and the place…
Baseball has always been a popular game in Alabama as these pictures indicate. Baseball team of the 46th Infantry regiment at Camp Sheridan in…
The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click…
Reconstructed Bastion on Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama Early Alabama “The territory now called Alabama was but sparsely settled in 1792, except by the…
(The following has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall Issue 1930, but they may provide some information not…
Early planters, large land owners a joke1 Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama was the home of many prominent planters and large land owners. Of the…
This tips date back to the early 1800s in America. Some of them may not be safe. Artificial Mahogany1 The following method of giving…
(This article was prepared by the author, Thomas P. Clinton in 1916, followed by a number of other historical studies of the section treated.…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XI INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA The battle of Talladega, fought between the hostile…
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