The information and illustrations below are excerpts from a book written in 1887 as a prospectus for future investors in Tuscaloosa. The Tuskaloosa Coal,…
EUFAULA, ALABAMA BLOW GUNS, GREEN CORN DANCE *NOTICE: The comments made in this article may be offensive to some today but it was transcribed…
A "rolling store" salesman carrying sack of flour into rural home. Coffee County, Alabama We all know the Rolling Stones are going to be…
The Roads Home by Randal Champion The Bear Creek Clubhouse was about two miles from my home in Tuscaloosa County. Deer season started in…
Weogufka Old Farm "N" Bluegrass Day 2018 is October 27, 2018 - See their Facebook page for details - Coosa County had good schools…
(Alabama's Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at…
We've all heard the song “Stars Fell on Alabama” and assume it came from the book titled with the same name written by Carl…
I reeled about like a cow with the blind staggers or a feller who had taken too many horns by Shannon Hollon David…
The 1892 Alabama Cadets football team represented the University of Alabama in the 1892 college football season. The team was led by head coach…
In 1937, the Van de Graaff family sold their land in Wilcox County, Alabama to the federal government, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA)…
PEAS, PLEASE by Dorothy Graham Gast Peas, corn, okra, tomatoes, squash, and sweet potatoes are as nutritious as they are tasty. Mainstays of southern…
[The Cahaba River has been an integral part of the growth of Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama.] Originally located on the west side In 1828,…
CHRISTMAS APRONS by Dorothy Graham Gast As the holiday season approached in 1955 my less than a year old daughter and I lived with…
The Masonic Apron by Vicky Clemmons My deep love and devotion for the older generations have always been evident by the company I keep,…
CHILDERSBURG, ALABAMA Childersburg, Alabama is an incorporated town, and was a station at junction of Central of Georgia Railroad and the Southern Railway, in…
(There is an orb in the photograph. How can it be explained?) Third great grandfather was James Taylor Ross Ross Bridge, in Hoover, Alabama…
In the summer of 1830, Jackson urged the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek to sign individual treaties accepting removal from their homelands. The Cherokees…
THE OLD PICKETT HOUSE BY MAUD MARTIN BUTLER (This article was printed in The Alabama Historical Quarterly 1930) The old "Pickett House" standing on…
The Trail of Tears was the name given to the forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following…
The Fed Hartley Rock by Dudley Hartley of Hunstville, AL Contributed by Karen R. Barbour (granddaughter to Joseph W. Hartley and Ila Snipes…
Few buildings in America can claim to have the kind of storied history as the Old State Bank in Decatur, Alabama. Standing for 183…
[Do you love ghost stories and tall tales. This tall tale about Sturdivant Hall is told in a film by the late but great…
The Spelling Bee by Dennis W Smith I attended the 1st grade through 5th grade at Bayview Elementary School. The school was located in…
The Ghost of Roupes Valley Ironworks(Tannehill Furnaces) by Shannon Hollon Since the late 1800s, locals have told of ghostly images and presences at Tannehill…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
Established in 1821 when still a part of Pike County, Louisville is one of the oldest towns in Alabama and was the county seat…
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Sometimes epitaphs have warnings to those still living Some epitaphs provide warnings to readers: Fear God Keep the Commandments and Do not…
A Toilet by Any Other Names by Inez McCollum The toilet has been the butt of many jokes and has quite a variety of…
SOCIETY OF DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DAR EARLY ALABAMA HISTORY Organized in 1890 in Washington DC The society of Daughters of the American…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! JOHN WESLEY STARR, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1830 – 1853) Mobile, Alabama John Wesley, Jr was born 22 Oct 1830 in Wilkes…
![This is what Tuscaloosa, Alabama looked like around 1887 [vintage prints]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TUSCALOOSA-WHARF.jpg)
![MONDAY MUSINGS: Rolling Stores, not the Rolling Stones – Could they return? [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rolling-store-2-220x90.jpg)
![The University of Alabama football team was represented by the Alabama cadets in 1892 [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1892_Alabama_Football_Team-220x170.jpg)
![Centreville in Bibb County, Alabama moved from west side of the Cahaba River to east [video & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bibb_County_Alabama_courthouse-220x148.jpg)
![America’s oldest continuously occupied city Childersburg, Alabama? [films & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Historic_Childersburg_Alabama_Bridge-220x149.jpg)
![The trees along the Trail of Tears -why are they twisted into strange shapes? [films and pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/trail-of-tears3-220x165.jpg)
![Do you believe ghosts roam the halls of the old State Bank of Decatur? [see vintage photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Restoration-Old-State-Bank-Decatur-Alabama-ca.-1934-by-photographer-1934-by-photographer-W.-N.-Manning-Library-of-Congress-220x155.jpg)
![Kathryn Tucker Windham [film] tells the ghost story of John Parkman who haunts beautiful Sturdivant Hall in Selma, Alabama](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sturdivant-hall-e1423004115469-220x135.jpg)
![North Carolina woman had to take her rose bush with her to Alabama [pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Methodist-Church-over-100-years-old-Old-Spring-Hill-Barbour-County-where-the-six-Comer-brothers-worshipped-ADAH-220x126.jpg)
