FROM: THE PERFECT WOMAN 1903 by K. T. Boland “The majority of mankind believe animal food to be a necessary constituent of the diet. We…
Childhood fun and my toys in old Perote, Bullock County, Alabama REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi (This…
Here are some interesting photographs at the Alabama Department of Archives and History of some baseball player, probably from around Alabama. Do you know…
A short (approximately 30 minute) drive on Highway 10 in southeast, Alabama from Clio in Barbour County to Abbeville in neighboring Henry County, takes,…
These photographs from the past found at the Alabama Department of Archives and History were made by John E. Scott, a photographer who took them…
GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN by Inez McCollum Attalla, the small Alabama town I grew up in, was so safe that we walked…
Our ancestors found ingenious ways to clean, and renew almost everything as can be seen from these instructions from a 1890s book. To Take…
Very thought-provoking soliloquy written by a woman about life two years after the War Between the States! This really provides insight into the state of…
The first white settlers of Cherokee County, Alabama experienced many troubles from a gang of buccaneers. This story tells how they handled them. HUGH…
RECOLLECTIONS OF CAROLINE LEADINGHAM (Written June 8, 1895) Our home and the place of my birth was near Mooresville, Limestone county, Ala. In the…
FUNNY FRIDAY: He's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine The people in the South have always had an interesting way…
Discover Samuel Lowery's descendants in Some Alabama Descendants of SAMUEL LOWERY Revolutionary War Soldier Revolutionary War( usembassy.gov) Revolutionary War Soldier Samuel Lowery was believed to…
FORGOTTEN PHOTOS: Vintage photographs of soldiers in the Confederacy with links to the source of photographs found at the ADAH Do you have additional…
RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Grandma's cure for Aching Limbs - and more - health remedies for the 1880s Do you have trouble with Aching limbs? Here's…
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Some unusual ways to die These epitaphs reveal some unusual ways people died. Here lies entombed one Roger Morton, Whose sudden death…
It will bring tears to your eyes Sometimes we discover films and videos on YouTube that are remarkable. This video is one of them.…
Do you agree with at least ten of these statements? Then you must live in a small town Historic Tuscumbia, Alabama 2010 by Carol…
Early Representatives of Walker County, Alabama (from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886) by Hon. E. A.…
The Tale of Two Samuels by Shannon Hollon Samuel McGaughey was born July 15, 1763 in York County Pennsylvania to Scots-Irish immigrant parents William…
Alabama Industry Days display in the window at the Alabama Gas Corporation building at 220 Montgomery Street in Montgomery, Alabama April 16, 1955 -(Q78803…
Children and young women standing in front of a building at Marshall Tie Company in Colbert. County, Alabama ca. 1920s - Possibly Teacher with…
Did you know....? In 1902, Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound…
Lace was very popular and used in many ways during the 1890s, including dresses. Here are some ways black lace was cleaned found in…
Childersburg was a small, mainly rural town of around 500 people in Alabama in the late 1930s. At the time, the town lacked a…
FUNNY FRIDAY: This is what dressing like a woman meant in 1875 It was evidently quite uncomfortable for women to be fashionably dressed according…
Jackson's Oak is located in Historic Village Point Preserve in Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. This giant tree, which is 95 feet tall, with a…
The lands in Madison County were the first surveyed and sold in North Alabama. Prior to the sales in 1809 lands in and around…
I think it is always interesting how time has changed our ideas regarding medicine. I love old books and found the following in an…
[These photographs of Birmingham, Alabama were taken in 1936.] Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. Most of the original settlers were of English…
{The Downing Industrial School was an early school in Alabama for young ladies - and the life-long passion of one man} Rev. J. M.…
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