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…
I would like to give a great big THANK YOU to all Alabama Pioneers fans who purchased ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories…
(We know that early settlers of Alabama settled in southwest Alabama from historical accounts below and the pictures of this 1800s era boat discovered…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
The Skyline Farms project, established by the federal government in Jackson County in 1934, was one of the more unique socioeconomic experiments in Alabama…
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…
The game that inspired the University of Alabama fight song, "Yea Alabama," was also Alabama's first national championship. The 1926 Rose Bowl Game held on…
Little Tallassee, four miles above Wetumpka, was later on the farm owned by Howell Rose, and not far from where he built his house.…
[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…
My Grandmother by Dennis W Smith My grandmother was born Malissy Roseann Lively in 1875 (one account says 1874). To us grandkids she was…
UNCLE MARVIN’S FUNERAL A TRUE STORY by Dennis W Smith Bayview, Alabama - also known as “the camps” - was a peaceful little mining…
![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.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)
![Do you have memories to share from Skyline Farms in Jackson County, Alabama? [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 7](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dancers-skyline-farmers-220x71.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)
![[1926 film and vintage pics] Many people say this California/ University of Alabama football game changed the south forever](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1925Alabamateam-220x121.jpg)
![On this day, 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)
