[Each year Eufaula has a pilgrimage of many of the homes in the historic district in the spring. Many historic homes will be open…
Some Of The Alabama Pioneers Captured And Ransomed By The Native Americans This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost…
When peace finally came between the United States and Great Britain, the colonists acquired the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the…
Lawn Jockeys and the Underground Railroad by Shannon Hollon Please read before passing judgement...Many folks have thought of these lawn jockey statues as racist…
Founded in 1833, on a farm near Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama. The College was first opened in 1833 as a manual labor institution as a…
Jackson Hotel at Blount Springs ca. 1900 Blount Springs - summer resort in rural setting “Blount Springs's mineral springs and rural setting made it…
First Confederate Cannon was made from iron in Cherokee County, Alabama HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Part VIII Mr. Hugh Cardon wrote…
GLENNVILLE PLANTATION Glennville, Russell County, Alabama Glennville Plantation was built 1842-44 by Col. Americus Mitchell who came to the town of Glennville, just…
Old York USA Heritage & Music Park C. J. Harris, one of three finalists from Alabama on American Idol, in 2014, brought considerable attention…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT Wilcox County, Alabama PART I by Marvin Malley Champion (submitted by his Jean Champion Butterworth) Many years have gone…
The hyphen is a little sign used in the English language. It unites or joins two or more words, and their respective meanings to…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IX 1 J. G. Hawkins Washington County No information for sketch is available. Jeremiah…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIII1 Henry Mitchell Gay Randolph County A son of Gilbert Gay, he was born…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VII 1 William H. Davis Pickens County William H. Davis was born in York…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VI 1 John Martin Crook Calhoun County John Martin Crook was born about 1810…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part V 1 John Cochran Barbour County Son of a farmer in Cocke County, Tennessee,…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IV- 1 Michael Jefferson Bulger Tallapoosa County Michael Jefferson Bulger (Alabama Department of Archives…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part III- 1 John S. Brasher Blount County Although little is known of his family,…
There were evidently some disagreements about historical events and people between Gen. Woodward and Col. Pickett as can be seen in the letter below. …
WE ARE THE STORYTELLERS (AUTHOR UNKNOWN) submitted by Jesse Suttles of Arkansas We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part II - 1 William Hodges Barnes Chambers County Upper left corner, William H. Barnes,…
Continued from Part I (This has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical QuarterlyThe Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Nos. 03 & 04, Fall and…
The people of Bullock County, Alabama were very creative when it came to survival as this invention to bring water down from the mountain shows.…
Leroy the Rooster Made his escape in Talladega by Johnny Ponder Back in the late '50s we lived on South Street in Talladega. Momma…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband…
Mossy Grove Schoolhouse by Amanda Gallatin The Mossy Grove School House Restaurant in Troy is a popular dinner spot with a long history. Locals…
The first organized weather service were made by weather observations in the State were made by voluntary reporters to the agricultural journals of the…
JOURNEY TO TEXAS, 1854: THE DIARY OF ROBERT SEABORN JEMISON OF TALLADEGAi by Hugh D. Reagan In the two decades prior to the Civil…
I have heard my grandfather(Big Daddy) Sidney Bearden b.1918 say they were so poor growing up" that they had cracks in the floors and…
Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama was once state of the art The Baptist Church, the most elegant structure of its kind in Tuskaloosa, was…
![Do you know which school [click to see films & pics] in Alabama still exists after four moves, two fires, the Civil War and a name change?](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/one-room-schoolhouse-220x165.jpg)
![Glennville Plantation, Russell County, Alabama was truly a majestic mansion [see film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Glennville-plantation11-e1402251314914-220x85.jpg)
![Walker County, [historic pictures] the home of C. J. Harris, a finalist in American Idol 2014 & the Music Park](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/corry-homestead-todat1-220x101.jpg)
![Should we stop using hyphens? [film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Dutch-family-Ellis-Island-ca.-1909-Bain-News-Service-220x150.jpg)
![This was an ingenious way to get water in Bullock County in the early days – [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Railroad-To-Spring-Showing-Water-Pouring-Into-Bucket-Octavia-Adkinson-House-Wilson-Road-2-e1401580505955-220x298.jpg)
