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PATRON – Did you know that Mardi Gras started on Massacre Island?

Did you know that Mardi Gras started on Massacre Island? This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten…

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PATRON + Alabama signed a tentative agreement to purchase West Florida for $1,000,000 – this is what happened next

Alabama tried to annex and purchase West Florida many times. Here is what happened when they tried. The land to West Florida, located under…

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PATRON + Fountain Heights [film, photographs] – a historic connection to Birmingham’s past – can it be saved?

Fountain Heights is one of Birmingham's historic neighborhoods, and was home to some of Birmingham's most prominent and wealthy business leaders, but today the…

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PATRON + Judson College in Marion, Alabama is the fifth oldest women’s college in the United States opened its doors on January 7, 1839

Judson College is the fifth oldest women's college in the United States. It was founded by members of Siloam Baptist Church in 1838 in…

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PATRON + Did you know that Birmingham, Alabama was born from a tip about a railroad crossing? See who was involved & historic film

ELYTON LAND COMPANY The city of Birmingham was conceived in the mind of engineer, John T. Milner who had surveyed the route of the…

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PATRON + “I can still remember when I was 4 or 5 years-old and we’d run around the track and play out there

Two horse racetracks flourished around the turn of the century in Birmingham, Alabama. Trotwood Park was located at 75th Street and 9th Avenue North.…

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PATRON – “Feb. 10, 1881 – Tuskegee Institute was established by the Alabama Legislature”

(Photo African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala ca. 1902 (Frances Benjamin Johnston, Library of Congress) Tuskegee University was founded in…