(Transcribed from The Macon Banner, Macon, Clarke County, Alabama April 24, 1845) NOTICE I will sell on the first Monday in May next in…
(Transcribed from The Macon Banner, Macon, Clarke County, Alabama April 24, 1845) CANDIDATES We are authorised to announce DR. ROBERT BURNS, as a candidate…
(Transcribed from The Macon Banner, Macon, Clarke County, Alabama April 24, 1845) NOTICE By virtue of an order of the Honorable the Orphans Court…
This excerpt and more can also be found in Alabama Footprints - Immigrants Continued below The area which constituted the future state of Alabama…
(Transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama, Jan. 16, 1908) FOR TAX COLLECTOR I hereby announce myself a candidate for Tax Collector of Crenshaw…
OLD NEWSPAPERS USED Old newspapers may be made to save a lot of work in the kitchen. They are very convenient, among other things,…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Holy Ground Campaign And Battle The principal campaign and engagement between the Creeks and the whites…
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(Transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama, Jan. 16, 1908) A little son of T. R. Bryant fell into Moseley's Mill pond in Beat…
Surveying Alabama Trading Houses Established This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and…
(Excerpt transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama January 16, 1908) ALABAMA CULLINGS Governor's Daughter Weds Miss Catherine Comer, daughter of Governor and Mrs.…
(Transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama, Jan. 16, 1908) ALL DAY SINGING AT TROY December 25, 1907, 9:30 A. M., the people of…
Patron+ member story Household tips from the past - some can still be used today For Removing Oil – Chloroform will remove machine oil from…
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(Excerpts transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama January 16, 1908) EXECUTORS SALE Under and by virtue of an order and decree of the…
Preserving Eggs SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE We do not believe there are any secret methods of keeping eggs superior to those published in the…
(Excerpts transcribed from The Eagle, Lovan, Alabama October 28, 1899, African-American newspaper) ON THE MAINE Colored Casualties on the Maine The following Negroes lost…
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: "Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my…
(Excerpts transcribed from The Eagle, Lovan, Alabama February 16, 1891- African-American newspaper) DIED Dug Dailey, died near Turnbull, Ala. Jan. 28, 1891, age about…
Names from Sumter County of candidates for seats in Convention to secure State of Alabama admittance to Union in 1865 Excerpt transcribed from The…
COLONEL JOHN ACTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1803-1889) Shelby County, Alabama John Acton was a planter, lieutenant-colonel of militia, justice of the peace, and commissioner.…
(Excerpts transcribed from The Livingston Journal, July 15, 1865) UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE One of those unfortunate affairs that will sometimes occur in the best of…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ MORE (Excerpts transcribed from The Lineville Headlight, Lineville, Alabama March 24, 1905) MORE LOCAL FLASHLIGHTS FOR TOWN AND COUNTY Mr.…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ MORE (Excerpts transcribed from The Lineville Headlight, Lineville, Alabama March 24, 1905) DELTA Your Correspondent having been sick accounts for…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ NEWS ARTICLES (Excerpts transcribed from The Lineville Headlight, Lineville, Alabama March 24, 1905) LOCAL FLASHLIGHTS OF TOWN AND COUNTY J.…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Autosee Battle By Georgians Red Eagle sent two bodies of his warriors to harass the borders…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ MORE (Excerpts transcribed from The Lineville Headlight, Lineville, Alabama March 24, 1905) MELLOW VALLEY Mr. J. M. Jordan and wife…
(WARNING! During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ NEWS ARTICLES (Excerpts transcribed from The Lineville Headlight, Lineville, Alabama March 24, 1905) Mr. J. C. Stanford, and wife, and…
