In the following transcribed letter, Lucy describes her work to her son in the influenza ward at the Camp Sheridan hospital. Transcribed letter from…
Saturdays in Town in the Country by Becki McAnnally My husband and I both remember a time when you went to “town” on Saturdays.…
Donation Parties - Have you ever heard of them? Donation Parties by Maude Dreisbach Editorial Dept. (WPA Alabama Federal Writer's Project) Written in 1930s…
Some Early Towns In Alabama This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at…
THE ORIGINAL "BOTTLE CORPS" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN 1886 by Edward C. Crow This "Corps" was organized by several members of the…
PART III HARFORD DEMOCRAT BEL AIR, MARYLAND. Friday Morning, May 11th , 1888. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD A Native of Harford County,…
Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee, he died from a fever in Alabama in 1815, while traveling through the state. Of Course, the…
The Big Fishing Trip by Joe Baxter Davis In about 1944, we lived in Equality, Coosa County, Alabama. Our friend Jack told us about…
MUSIC OF THE BANDS by Jean Butterworth Here comes the Million Dollar Band! This was music to my ears in late 1950’s as I…
There has been some incorrect information concerning the Bibb plantations in Limestone and Madison County. The corrected information is taken from THE HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE…
Big Al at football stadium Big Al (Mascot of University of Alabama) and the Lost Paws It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in…
Old Auburn photographs found at Alabama Department of Archives and History. . . Photographs made by Bill Wood. of the 1956 Wreck Tech Pajama…
"During the American Civil War, the important transportation hub of Decatur, Alabama often changed hands between the Union and the Confederacy. Eventually, the entire city…
I can't believe Sophia McGillivray delivered twins two weeks later. This woman was amazing! -This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) By the time of the American Revolution,…
This Patron+ story is also in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants - A Collection of Lost and Forgotten Stories First Territorial Governor Lived…
Many of Andrew Jackson's men settled in Alabama (written in 1910) Of the men with (Andrew) Jackson, mustered out just after this affair, (the…
Vice-President William Rufus King Incident (Written in 1910) An incident of particular interest occurring shortly after St. Stephens was made the capital of Alabama…
Stories and ghostly tales from the 1930s of how Shades Valley in Jefferson County, Alabama was named (WPA Alabama Writer's Project) There are at…
Ghost stories or a part of Alabama's past. Below are three unedited stories from 1939 written by a WPA writer who interviewed three African-Americans…
This advice was published in the Jacksonville Republican in Benton, County, Alabama in 1837 and has been transcribed exactly as written. It is still…
In 1883, there was an attempt to burn the Woodstock Hotel in Anniston, Alabama in 1883 (Transcribed from Anniston Hot Blast, Anniston, Alabama, October…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com Three countries, England, Spain…
Lafayette did not dance on his visit to Cahaba, Alabama Lafayette in Cahaba, Alabama by Jack Kytle (WPA Alabama Federal Writer's Project) Written in…
Alabama's last county, Houston County, was created by an Act of the legislature on February 9, 1903. Its territory was taken from Dale, Geneva and…
(Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama January 11, 1870) CALERA CORRESPONDENCE CALERA, ALABAMA, JAN. 10, 1870 ED. GUIDE: As Calera is in the…
Salting the Pudding - a good old-fashioned Southern story SALTING THE PUDDING by Luther Clark (WPA Alabama Writer's Project) Written in 1930s I never…
One hundred years ago, on March 24, 1916, Julia Strudwick Tutwiler passed away in Birmingham, Alabama. Julia Strudwick Tutwiler Education and Reform Tutwiler was a…
Excerpt from Channahatchee Moon II: Some added experiences by Raymond E. Hall (The author tells you about growing up in a rural community in…
On August 2, 1819 - The first Constitution of Alabama was adopted paving the way to statehood in December. It was considered a model…
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