From WILD WEST, October 1998 When the Steamboat Monmouth sank in the Mississippi, Creek Indian passengers paid the price. By Cecil Meares Picture of the…
Lt. David Moniac, a Creek Native American, was the first minority graduate of West Point Can you imagine the culture shock and difficulties this young…
By Jean Butterworth Attending a small Baptist church in the country when I was young was a very different experience than attending church today.…
Called the Singing River The Cherokees who lived in the northwestern corner of Alabama called the river that flowed through their territory “Unashay” —…
(Transcribed by Donna R. Causey) SAND MOUNTAIN MELUNGEON FAMILIES A DNA PERSPECTIVE FROM WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH AND JEWS AMONG THE INDIANS by DONALD…
New Town/West End addition to Tuscaloosa in 1821 A little after this period of time, in 1821, that part of the Tuscaloosa city limits…
FIRST BOAT TRIP OVER MUSCLE SHOALS—1828 By GEORGE W. SWARTZ The Tennessee Valley is rich in history and the beautiful Tennessee River lying like…
Originally, I’m from Tuscaloosa by Jean Butterworth Early Tuscaloosa Memories 1935-1942 How many times in conversation with strangers or friends do I say, “Originally…
The history of the beautiful University Club in Tuscaloosa dates back to the very beginning of the state of Alabama. Captain James H. Dearing,…
Read about this sad period of American history in the three-book historical series, Tapestry of Love. Inspired by true events, these three novels take you back…
The Ghost of the lost Confederate gold by Shannon Hollon Back during the depression Uncle Byron Campbell got word that during the Civil War…
The land beneath homes and shopping centers in the community of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, Alabama includes many historic sites, including a Revolutionary…
CEMETERY DOCUMENTATION by SHERRY S. JOHNSTON Years ago, when I first started this journey of researching, documenting and writing about cemeteries, I started off…
During World War II, many people moved to nearby Sylacauga to work in the defense plant. They came from all over the nation and the area was…
Carbon Hill is located in the northwestern part of Walker County, Alabama about 15 miles west of Jasper. It was settled in 1886 and…
[The Lou Wooster Public Health Award at the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Public Health is presented annually by the University of…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM BROCKMAN BANKHEAD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1874 - 1940) Lamar, Madison County, Walker County, Alabama William Brockman Bankhead was born on his…
PAINT ROCK VALLEY, ALABAMA PIONEERS (posted to public stories Ancestry.com by genealogygeek) Flanked by steep mountains and threaded by a meandering river, Paint Rock Valley…
I never know what I'm going to run across when I do research. Sometimes I've found old photographs in strange places and wonder why…
Skyline Farms was a 'New Deal' Resettlement project in Jackson County, Alabama that was initiated in 1935 to help displaced farmers. Before the projects…
Note: The following has been transcribed from original text written in late 1800s. Please make allowances for the harsh language used. The Cherokee Indians…
(We know that early settlers of Alabama settled in southwest Alabama from historical accounts below and the pictures of this 1800s era boat discovered…
[This historic site is still surrounded by controversy as can be seen by the film at the end of the article. Most of the…
The Waddell farmhouse appears at home in Landmarks park, in Dothan, Alabama, but local people can tell you the story of the historic day on…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
Little Tallassee, four miles above Wetumpka, was later on the farm owned by Howell Rose, and not far from where he built his house.…
UNCLE MARVIN’S FUNERAL A TRUE STORY by Dennis W Smith Bayview, Alabama - also known as “the camps” - was a peaceful little mining…
Happy April Fools Day! In 1974, as an April Fool joke, a radio announcer told his audience that, since the community had experienced several…
In early frontier Eufaula, Alabama, there were but few stores in the town, and not many dwellings, all of them were constructed of rough…
This story was written in 1858 by Gen. Thompson Simpson Woodward of the Alabama militia. He was in Alabama from very early days. WINN…
![Is there a music muse in Muscle Shoals? Read this and decide for yourself [pictures & video]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tennessee-river-220x165.jpg)
![First Steam Boat Trip over Muscle Shoals was in 1828 [historic letter about the trip & vintage pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dittos-landing-220x187.jpg)
![Tuscaloosa & University of Alabama memories 1935-1942 [old pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1940s_greensboro_ave-1-e1397748300340-220x78.jpg)
![Did you know that the University Club in Tuscaloosa was once the Governor’s Mansion? [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Dearing-Bagby-house-1939-by-photographer-Frances-Benjamin-Johnston-Library-of-Congress-220x156.jpg)
![Beautiful Paint Rock Valley, Alabama “Little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah” [pictures and story]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Paint_Rock_River-wikipedia-220x143.jpg)
![Alabama young man sets a world record, but his name is forgotten and almost unknown [see photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Junius-Hill-Attalla-Alabama-the-boy-who-made-212.5-bushels-of-corn-on-one-acre-of-land-at-a-cost-of-eight-and-six-tenths-cents-per-bushel-220x178.jpg)
![Time to celebrate! [1937 photographs from Jackson county] This is what they did for fun at Skyline Farms – Part 6 –](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/skyline-farms-outlaw-sign-220x76.jpg)
![On December 20th in 1978, a historic house was moved in Dothan, Alabama – [see this film of it being moved]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/waddell-house-move-220x153.jpg)
