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Faith and Courage: 2nd Edition -presents the religious persecution of Quakers in Pre-Revolutionary War days of America intertwined with a love story. The characters…
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) continued below Three countries, England,…
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…
We often take for granted our health care today, but in the past, these diseases that we now can treat with vaccinations were feared…
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…
People from many countries began settling in Alabama in the early days This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost…
Relationship with the Indians The relations of the settlers of Cherokee County with the Cherokees in the country were very friendly. Many of the…
The Mountain Stops Here by Shannon Hollon Many folks in the hamlet of McCalla Alabama don't know that the Appalachian mountains ends in their…
This is a letter and information about two towns that no longer exists, Honeytown & Hawridge {see picture below of students ca. 1900 of Haw Ridge school)…
Sharecropping came into wide use in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877). The South had been devastated by war and planters…
(I never thought about this before, but I bet it happens a lot.) A Pastor has to eat some strange meals. Here are some…
The Dawson-Vaughan House in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama was the home of Elodie (Todd) Dawson, Abraham Lincoln's half sister-in-law, Elodie Breck Todd was the daughter…
Update: Next Fort Toulouse - Fort Jackson frontier days are on November 7, 2018 - Mark your calendar. Elmore County created 1866 Elmore County…
Hueytown Debate Team April 4, 1939 (from Times Daily, Florence, Alabama April 4, 1939) Members of the Hueytown high school debating team, shown…
A powerful tornado destroyed the First Baptist Church of Wetumpka in January 2019. The old part of the chapel received "significant" structural damage during…
The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931. At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours. It was dedicated…
Do you remember these days? WHEN TEACHERS COULDN'T WEAR PANTS by Dorothy Graham Gast Two years after public school teachers in other schools were wearing…
He carried the shot in his side for the rest of his life by Shannon Hollon My grandparents loved to sit on there front…
[This is quite a story that reveals what travel was like in 1830] THE TRIP by BUD and TERRY ANDERSON Excerpted and paraphrased by…
The Fayette County Courthouse burned twice, once in 1866 and again in 1911. There is a traditional story that the first fire was deliberately set…
The EF4 tornado that tore through Northeast Cullman County, Alabama was especially devastating for the city of Cullman Damage to historic structures was extensive.…
![PATRON – Cherokee County – a site where the ‘Trail of Tears’ Indians were placed in a stockade [film & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cherokee-Rock-village-220x165.jpg)
![He wanted to split Dale County in two, even if it had to be done with a broad axe [old pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Graduating-class-at-Haw-Ridge-Rural-School-in-Dale-County-Alabama-ca.-1900-Principal-Mrs.-Read-stands-on-the-right-Alabama-Department-of-Archives-and-History-220x161.jpg)
![Elmore County, Alabama [film and photographs] was home to many Native American towns](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/painting-covered-bridge-coosa-wetumpka-1847-ala-state-archives-220x192.jpg)
![Did you know that in 1932 the Birmingham Municipal Airport was the only airport in the South that received an A-T-A rating [vintage photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bob_Hope_and_Doris_Day_at_the_airport-e1440781188688-220x172.jpg)
