During the 1930s of the Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life…
The amazing photographs in this film reveal the trucking industry in Montgomery, Alabama in 1943. The drivers had very different roads to traverse compared to…
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
On May 25, 1910, the first-ever night-time airplane flight was made at Orville Wright's flying school near Montgomery, Alabama. Glinting now and then in the moonlight…
RECALLS DAYS WHEN ICE CAME DOWN FROM MAINE BY SHIPS Captain John Dorgan has Wealth of Memories after 55 Years Spent on "Old Man…
"SCRAPS" RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone The Athens Post, March 14, 1867. Page 2, Column 3. Part…
THE "GOOD OLD DAYS" IN MARSHALL COUNTY By C. G. FENNELL (Transcribed from summer issue of The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 1 No 2,…
Francis M. “Franc” Paul established the Chattanooga Daily Rebel in August 1862, after the town’s two newspapers had merged, then suspended publication earlier that year. "The Rebel was…
During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
With the removal of the Indians in 1814 by Andrew Jackson and his men, settlers began to migrate to the fertile Cahawba land that…
Greenville is a city and the county seat of Butler County, Alabama. The name change from Buttsville to Greenville in 1822 when the county seat…
The horrible thing also leaped and seated itself behind him During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write…
MOBILE STREETS' NAMES DATE FROM IMPORTANT PAGES WORLD'S HISTORY By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers' Project Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 20,…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER X Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
MOBILE PARK'S IRON DEER IS SURVIVOR OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Alabama Writers' Program Works Project Administration Council Chamber,…
During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
Are you a genealogy addict? These are the symptoms. You know you are addicted to genealogy when..... "You can answer all the queries on…
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1840 – 1935), or Cudjo Lewis, was the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the…
From Cecile Ashworth Brown Thought someone may be interested in why I became interested in genealogy. My Dad used to tell me that one…
THE HISTORY OF THE GREENE COUNTY LIBRARY By Emory Peebles Hildreth (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 04, Winter Issue 1943)…
JOHN HUNT By Robert C. Hunt, Chattanooga, Tenn. The first white man known to have settled in the Huntsville area was an Indian trader…
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
LOCAL NEWS IN ALABAMA 1877-1879 (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 Huntsville jail has been satisfactorily repaired.…
These are the Top Ten Indicators you've become a Geneaholic..... 10. You introduce your daughter as your descendant 9. You've never met any of…
MOBILE GIRL SAID PRETTIEST IN UNITED STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers' Progressing Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 21, 1939 Marquis…
Abraham Mordecai was an early settler who lived his last days in Dudleyville, Alabama in a log cabin.Below is a sketch of him written…
Andrew Jackson Beard An Inventor (1849-1921) "Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation near Mt. Pinson in Jefferson County, Alabama about…
This interesting bit of trivia about Madison County was published on August 13, 1932, edition of the Times Daily (Florence, Alabama) FURNISHES PROBATE JUDGES…
BIG CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH Organized in 1823 Oldest in Pickens County By Marion Johnson written in 1940 The First Baptist church to be…
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