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…
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…
Lying at the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, Shelby County is richly endowed with abundant natural resources and unrivaled beauty in the profile…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 NOTES HAYDEN – New High School building at this place completed and…
WARNING: This story was transcribed exactly as written in the 1930s. It may include some offensive language. PLEAS AND THE SNAKE FOLKLORE BY WPA…
THE WALKERS (Transcribed from Short Sketches of Jackson County, W. P. A. story from Alabama Department of Archives and History,) Edgar Walker, Landowner Dorans…
SOME MEMBERS OF FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS OF GREENSBORO, ALABAMA1 (published in 1908) ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER Phoenix Royal Arch Chapter No. 11, under dispensation, was organized…
In the 1930s and 1940s, bus travel was the common way to travel to school, around town and to other parts of the country.…
Scroll below to see video of the Old Dennis Hotel. On June 30, 1837, Dadeville, Alabama was incorporated with an intendant and five counselors,…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER EIGHT by By HON. E. A. POWELL (Written before 1886) At the time I first went to Fayette the…
(From the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama Jan 14, 1885 -transcribed in the Cahaba Journal Vol I) THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT Immense Loss of…
The old-fashioned cakes our grandmother made were the best. Following is the recipe; SCROLL DOWN TO SEE RECIPE To one quart of warm water…
In September of 1817, when Alabama was still a Territory, land speculators flocked to Alabama due to the assertion of the fertility of the…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPATION In peace and prosperity,…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 Society Notes, Clubs Personal Members of the cast of “Thinking Makes it…
Humorous Tombstones Catholic Cemetery, La Pointe, Wisconsin: To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu Born 18 September 1822 Accidentally shot 4th April 1844 As a…
The EF4 tornado that tore through Northeast Cullman County, Alabama was especially devastating for the city of Cullman Damage to historic structures was extensive.…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER IX INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA INDIAN OCCUPATION PART 2 It warms the cockles…
Personal mentions Transcribed From the Florence Times October 6, 1905 – Lauderdale County, Alabama The Coming and Going of the Citizens at Large Visitor…
Rules anyone new to the South needs to know about snow event. Pay close attention to the TV, you will be alerted to any chance…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER IX INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA The red man had no written histories. His strand…
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 Social News and names from Glencoe, Alabama March 1932 Misses Lois Bottoms…
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