Did you see her? Most people who have lived in Jefferson County, Alabama for a while have heard the ghost story about the 'lady of…
NIMROD EARLE BENSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1794-1854) South Carolina, Montgomery County, Alabama (Copyrighted Excerpt from The Grand Masters of Free & Accepted Masons of the…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Jackson Protects Friendly Creeks General Jackson continued to wait for supplies while camped at Fort Strother.…
The following is an Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation - (Excerpt continued below) The Breaking Point The hunting grounds of the Creeks once stretched…
Childhood Memories of a 1950's Alabama Farmlife by Joan Clark Mann (Photographs submitted by Joan Clark Mann) June, 2011 I know something about mules,…
Office Rules and Regulations By Geiger, 1872 Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and showcases. Each day fill lamps,…
Archaeologists believe that humans have lived in Geneva County, Alabama for at least 13,000 years, perhaps much longer. During the coldest periods of the…
The Ghosts of Dauphin Island When French explorers arrived in Mobile Bay and found sun-bleached bones stacked on an island, they didn't realize that…
The Old Gray Lady McAdory High School by Shannon Hollon The history and heritage of McAdory High School in McCalla Alabama is a interesting…
(This true story is hard to think about today, but it probably happened many times--particularly during epidemics.) Make sure she's dead by Peg Crum My…
Remember Those Cold Winters? by Dorothy Graham Gast I agree that winters are not as cold as they were in the 40s and 50s.…
Scrapbooks the Old Fashioned Way by Jean Butterworth Cleaning out drawers is always a tiresome chore, but here is what I discovered after many…
Steward’s 10 Cent Store A Childhood Memory By Thelma Ann Smelser I was riding through Piedmont, Alabama, a while back when something caught my…
$85 dollars worth of Indian blood I can remember growing up and always hearing older family members speak at reunions and gatherings of our…
The Armistead's John [P?] Armistead Grove Hill, Alabama Interview Life History Annie Webb Clarke County (Transcribed from Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal…
Holtville High School, Alabama A school in the National & International spotlight (Continued below) Holtville is 27 miles northwest of Montgomery, Alabama and is…
(This article has been exactly transcribed (with misspelled and grammar mistakes) from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA that was printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886)…
These photographs of young cotton mill workers taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in November and December 1913 are haunting. Merrimack mill was located in Huntsville,…
Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," was born near LaFayette, Alabama on May 13, 1914. His real name is Joe Louis Barrow. Held world heavyweight…
(This article has been precisely transcribed (with spelling and grammar mistakes) from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA which was printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12,…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Having made peace with Red Eagle (William Weatherford), after the Creek Indian War, General Andrew Jackson…
Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of the first Mardi Gras in America. [See the story: Have you ever heard of Massacre Island in Mobile,…
Do you have information about these image? Click here to email Alabama Department of Archives and History: mailto:[email protected] and please include file name (located below image)…
This is probably one of the earliest videos of Auburn University. The famous Toomer's Corner, at the intersection of College Street and Magnolia Avenue can…
TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUMS ARE NO MORE! by JEAN BUTTERWORTH It was announced in the Birmingham News that as of June 1, 2011 that the Public…
The Bountiful Bearden's... A family's journey in the American South by Shannon Hollon Our first Bearden in America was Jacob Bearden b.1660 in England…
In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the…
The following has been transcribed from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society: New series Volume 4 By Alabama Historical Society 1904 THE HISTORY OF…
More details of this massacre can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation KIMBALL/KIMBELL-JAMES MASSACRE in Clarke County, Alabama A brutal massacre occurred September 1,…
Below are five captains who served in the Civil War for the Confederacy. We are publishing photographs of interest to researchers on Alabama Pioneers.…
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