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Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star Spangled Banner shared a close friendship with Alabama Governor Gayle’s wife and daughter

This story is an excerpt from Alabama Footprints Volume V – VIII The story below reveals the close friendship Francis Scott Key shared with Alabama Governor Gayle’s wife, Sarah and her nine year old daughter. (CONTINUED from Part III) (This was transcribed by the Alabama Historical Society and printed in 1901 in their magazine as follows) […]

On January 16, 1967, Lurleen Wallace was inaugurated as Alabama’s first female governor

“Lurleen Wallace was inaugurated as Alabama’s first female governor–and only the third nationwide–as an estimated 150,000 look on. Wallace succeeded her husband George C. Wallace, who was barred by law at the time from serving consecutive terms. She died in office of cancer on May 7, 1968.” (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Lurleen Wallace was the 46th […]

UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Haunted houses in Tuscumbia, Alabama hold many stories

(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell ca. 1938) Continued below Haunted Houses Near Tuscumbia written ca. 1938 by WPA writer Susan Russell Colbert County, Alabama One-half mile to the left of Jackson Highway, which connects Sheffield and Tuscumbia, three ivy-covered towers mark the Andrew Jackson House, which is invested […]

HAPPY 200th BIRTHDAY ALABAMA!

ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood: A collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories Once Alabama was admitted as a state of the United States of America on December 4, 1819, a great wave of immigrants from other states and countries came by flat-boats, pack-horses, covered wagons and ships to become the first citizens of the state. ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS […]