Down the Alabama River - Day four on August 14, 1814 SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY This amazing journal helps us visualize this historic…
Excerpt from 1946 canning cookbook What is Flat Sour? Three vegetables, most generally canned, are tomatoes, corn and peas. Classified by length of processing…
The game that inspired the University of Alabama fight song, "Yea Alabama," was also Alabama's first national championship. The 1926 Rose Bowl Game held on…
(WARNING! During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PERSONAL NEWS (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) REMAINS OF ISAAC ROSER DISINTERRED On Jan. 30…
On a tombstone in New Hampshire: Richard Jenkins here doth lay (Lately removed from over ye way), His body's here – his soul's in…
Events in the life of Joe Gillespie born 1853 as told by him in 1939 - Part I SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY (Transcribed…
An amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River in 1814 Day two - August 12 Over the next few…
(WARNING! During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) W. G. TROUTMAN (Now E. E. TROUTMAN) did a…
Oldest Presbyterian Church in Cherokee County, Alabama was started on August 11th SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 03,…
This is an excerpt from a book The History of Coosa County, Alabama written by Rev. George E. Brewer before 1922. Please consider the time period when it…
(WARNING! This WPA interview may have words offensive to readers today. We have transcribed the words exactly as written. Please consider the time and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Some men realized that a profit could be made moving the Native-Americans to the Indian Territory. Companies…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) OUR MERCHANTS The Business Men of Leighton From 1872…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) CHURCH NOTES Rev. Peter Wager, of the Episcopal church,…
Abihka was one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Survivor Stories From Fort Mims Dr. Thomas G. Holmes Dr. Thomas G. Holmes was a survivor…
Buttermilk pie is believed to be originally from England, but now it is a popular pie of the Southern United Staes. The basic filling…
Amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey to survey the Alabama River in 1814 Day one Over the next few days, we will…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) A Revival of Religion in Progress – Leighton Visitors…
Did you know....? In 1902, Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Treaties And Native-American Land Titles On June 16, 1802, the Creek Indians ceded…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY (Transcribed from The Leighton News, Leighton, Alabama, Feb. 9, 1894) COLBERT COUNTY DIRECTORY Judge Eighth Judicial Circuit – H.…
Over the years there has been considerable talk that Birmingham, Alabama sits over a large underground stream. It is reported that early settlers of Birmingham…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The removal of the Choctaws in 1831 became a model for other tribes to be moved to…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY (Excerpts transcribed from The Valley Daily Times-News, Lanett, Alabama, February 17, 1916) ANNOUNCEMENTS (Political Advertisements) FOR TAX COLLECTOR We…
Courtship of Miss Clay in the news of 1886 BECOME A PATRON TODAY and read all the stories SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . .…
[Great descriptions of people and where they lived in early Autauga county, Alabama before 1886!] VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON, AUTAUGA COUNTY, ALABAMA (from history of…
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