This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Land Is Ceded For The Mississippi Territory in 1735 From 1735, large…
This story can also be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: A Collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories After the opening of roads through the…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation - Chapter from the Creek Indian War in Alabama -(Story continued below) Leaving Colonel Russell in command of Fort Claiborne, General…
(Updated with the Newspaper article from 1813) BATTLE OF TALLADEGA The Battle of Talladega was an engagement between Gen. Jackson's army and a body…
In the 1830s many Native-Americans were divided in their opinions about moving west. Some voluntarily moved with the first treaties, and others delayed in…
UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA (This has been transcribed verbatim from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 By Thomas McAdory Owen,…
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART…
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART…
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980 ) Continued below FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF…
Continued from Part II (This has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical QuarterlyThe Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Nos. 03 & 04, Fall and…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) William Weatherford – Red Eagle Among the Native Americans, Tecumseh found a bold, gifted, and eloquent…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 4) Tecumseh Causes Earthquake The Native American Chief Tecumseh arrived in Alabama in 1811…
SATSUMA DAY The town of Satsuma in Mobile County, Alabama was originally named Fig Tree Island but was renamed Satsuma in 1915 for a…
They Made Sure The Knot Was Tied Securely This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume…
Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? (Text continued below) Speculation in Muscle Shoals "In…
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants President Monroe's Surprise Visit To Huntsville “Flurry and excitement” greeted President Monroe…
This story and more can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood: Lost & Forgotten Stories Forty-four delegates gathered in a vacant cabinet shop on July…
Cherokee County, Alabama - DeSoto and Chiaha where DeSoto visited HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Part I Mr. Hugh Cardon wrote the…
(The Wilson Dam Schools had some very innovative programs as can be seen by this historic vintage film below) The Wilson Dam School From…
Surveying Alabama Trading Houses Established Excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Continued below... Surveying Alabama Trading…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) CONTINUED BELOW... There were many routes that early pioneers used to…
EUFAULA, ALABAMA – YEAR 1875 (Transcribed from History of Eufaula, Alabama: the bluff city of the Chattahoochee By J. A. B. Besson – 1875)…
(This story was written in 1916. Mr. Clinton was a contributor to the old Alabama Historical Society, reprinted in The Alabama Historical Quarterly 1930) EARLY HISTORY…
This is the introduction to the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records Bibb County…
(The following is an excerpt from The History of the Elyton Land Company and Birmingham, Ala. 1892 by H. M. Caldwell, President Elyton Land…
[This historical letter tells the story of the yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama in 1853 as they tried to determine how it started.…
Rocky Hill Castle was built by James Edmonds Saunders, the author of Early Settlers of Alabama, which was published by his granddaughter after his…
Claiborne is now a ghost town on a bluff above the Alabama River in Monroe County, Alabama but a one time, it was an…
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD PART II HARFORD DEMOCRAT BEL AIR, MARYLAND. Friday Morning, May 11th , 1888. A native of Harford County,…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) continued below... Tennessee settlers had lived…
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