Household hints from the past: By dipping a new broom in hot salt water before using, will toughen the bristles and make it last…
BEAUTIFUL RECEPTION AT FIRST WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY Montgomery Advertiser, October 7th, 19001 The reception at the Jeff Davis House on Lee Street,…
If you have been a resident of Birmingham, Alabama for any length of time, then I'm sure you have heard of U. S. Highway…
Good Ole Days - Household hints from the past Our parents were always looking for time-savers - here are some that are still helpful.…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek or Muscogee Nation, which numbered around…
Colonel Nathaniel Scott petitioned Auburn's Masonic Lodge (Auburn Lodge #76) to sponsor a female educational center in town. Auburn Masonic Female College became the…
Newspapers located at the Alabama Department of Archives and History are a great source of genealogy information. INDEX TO MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA, NEWSPAPERS In…
THE BOWIE LETTERS, 1819 and 1821 Edited by Virginia K. Jones Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960…
Photograph of Samuel Pickens, bro. of Israel Pickens -served as Comptroller of the Alabama treasury 1819 to 1829 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
From Germantown, PA Here lies the dust of Louisa Orr, whose soul is now a little angle in Heaven Another mistake? Here lies Peter…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November 1956 - 1957, presented as a Public Service, THE COMMERCIAL BANK) STEALING THE YANKEE'S…
JOHN MURRAY FORBES'S HORSEBACK TRIP TO ALABAMA IN 1831. By Thomas Semmes Forbes, Birmingham Originally written ca 1904 (Transcribed from Transactions of the Alabama…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) In 1817, the U. S. Senate Committee on Public Lands declared that Indian…
Letter written from an American living in Brazil 1865 Alabama Pioneers Patrons receive rewards, bonus stories, and free books Learn more about the Patron…
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO: News clipping - Thomas Henderson, Enoch Parsons & Jesse Beene vs. Joseph Wilson - Cahawba, Alabama Oct. 16, 1819 Transcribed…
LIST OF VOTERS AT AN ELECTION HELD AT NOTASULGA, MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA, ON THE 6th. OF AUGUST 1849 H. H. Armstrong Elijah Harrolson N.…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Up to the last moment, the Cherokee still believed that the Treaty of Echota would not be…
(Works Progress Administration interview from 1938 - transcribed exactly as written.) ISAAC JOHNSON: CAJAN TURPENTINER Happy Hill Community Near Chatom, Ala. 11/29/1938 by Jack…
EARLY MACON COUNTY RECORDS1 THE STATE OF ALABAMA ) MACON COUNTY ) Know all men by these presents that I Jacob Chester of the…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) During the Seminole War, almost 800 Creek warriors were told that they could remain with their families…
EARLY MACON COUNTY RECORD1 We the undersigned managers & clerks do certify that an election held at the house of Joseph P. Clough for…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III- Scroll to see Table of Contents of book List…
EARLY LANDOWNERS IN INDIAN SESSION OF 1814 Ts. 16, 17, 18, 19, Rs. 18, 19, 20 Loftin-----Sec. 23, T. 18, N. R. 18 E.…
(Works Projects Administration interview from 1938 We have transcribed the words exactly as written. Please consider the time and culture of the day) Lucy…
With the price of gold now so high, I thought this was an interesting transcribed story from the 1920s. Gold is not uniformly…
“Do not over-water cactus plants. Moderate moisture is needed. If over-watered a Christmas cactus will drop its buds.” “A homemade frog for flowers: Take…
This was a letter written to the Editor of the Columbus (Georgia) Sun on June 16, 1858, from General, Thomas S. Woodward about the recapture…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) THE STATE OF ALABAMA – PERRY COUNTY Probate Court Regular Term, Dec.…
