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…
During WWII, several Alabama small towns manufactured high explosives for the War. Here is a news article from June, 1941 that reveals where the…
Antiquities of Bibb (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama January 11, 1900) Adverting further to the representatives of Bibb County, in the general…
[Transcribed from the Baltimore Sun via the TIMES DAILY, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama August 4, 1894] In a 1894 speech Hon. Jos. Wheeler of…
The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click…
WARNING: This story was transcribed exactly as written in the 1930s. It may include some offensive language. PLEAS AND THE SNAKE FOLKLORE BY WPA…
Scroll below to see video of the Old Dennis Hotel. On June 30, 1837, Dadeville, Alabama was incorporated with an intendant and five counselors,…
In September of 1817, when Alabama was still a Territory, land speculators flocked to Alabama due to the assertion of the fertility of the…
Alabama celebrates her 200th birthday, December 14th and 15th, 2019. Were your ancestors here on December 14, 1819, when Alabama became a state? Some…
Alabama became a state December 14, 1819! ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood: A collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories Once Alabama was admitted as a state…
Was there ever a settlement of German farmers in Washington County, Alabama? I discovered the following news articles in an 1891 newspaper about a…
The Iron Bowl rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama "has long been reckoned as one of the most heated, if not…
[Here's an interesting news article from 1910 pleading for the football rivalry between Alabama and Auburn to continue in Birmingham after being suspended.] Alabama…
This story is an excerpt from Alabama Footprints Volume V - VIII The story below reveals the close friendship Francis Scott Key shared with Alabama…
Faith and Courage: 2nd Edition -presents the religious persecution of Quakers in Pre-Revolutionary War days of America intertwined with a love story. The characters…
Eufaula, phoenix like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Transcribed from The Clayton Record…
“Somewhere beneath the dust may be the first skeleton of a Paleo Indian to be found in the Western Hemisphere.” Confirmation established by discoveries…
The Beginning of Tuscaloosa (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
The Spring Street Recreational Center was a busy place during WWII. It was the home of the USO Club in Talladega, Talladega County, Alabama. Couple…
I had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing an extraordinary lady who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Ramsey High School, and went on to…
Not a Fairy Tale Does the title of this story sound like a fairy tale or too far-fetched to be true? It really happened in the…
"The Creek Nation was once one of the largest and most powerful Indian groups in the Southeast." Much of their land was lost as…
A short (approximately 30 minute) drive on Highway 10 in southeast, Alabama from Clio in Barbour County to Abbeville in neighboring Henry County, takes,…
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…
THEY WANT TO BE ONE SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE STORY Girard and Phenix City will be united into a big town (Transcribed from The…
ONE MORE DEAD DESPERADO - News from Talladega 1890 (Transcribed from The Weekly Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama Nov. 6, 1890) ONE MORE DEAD DESPERADO Talladega…
Amazing story from the Florence Times, September 3, 1892 in Alabama reveals how difficult life was in raising a family in the south during…
RICKWOOD FIELD – THE OLDEST STANDING BASEBALL STADIUM IN THE NATION HAS A BIRTHDAY ON AUGUST 18TH Thanks to A. H. "Rick" Woodward, Birmingham,…
Sometimes biographical information about people in Alabama can be found in the strangest places. Many books are out-of-print so we are gathering information we…
Dr. John R. Drish House, also known simply as the Drish House, is a historic plantation house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It is considered by…
In 1844, there was a disagreement about the center of Cherokee County [see film] HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY ALABAMA1 Part VII In…
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