(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) O. P. Williams, a citizen of Nashville, was around fifteen years old when the Cherokees were driven…
Early pioneers held in high esteem Arley is located in the heart of Winston County, Alabama. Some early settlers in the area around 1832…
Bullock County was formed on December 5, 1866, from Pike, Barbour, Macon and Montgomery Counties. Perote is a very old town in Bullock County,…
ALABAMA MARBLE Giuseppe Moretti in 1901 with his model of Vulcan Alabama marble is among the highest quality stone in the world. The state's…
Barton, Alabama Barton, Alabama is located on the west bank of Caney Creek, about one mile from its confluence with the Tennessee River in…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE RECIPE CHICKEN PIE 1886 RECIPE Stew chicken till tender, season with one-quarter of a pound of butter, salt, and pepper;…
Early days in St. Stephens, Alabama and George Strother Gaines (Transcribed excerpt from Sketches of Alabama history By Joel Campbell Du Bose written in…
In the year 1861, when America was beginning the struggle over Civil War issues, a little town, named Utopia, was started about three miles…
The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…
See their Facebook page for more details - Coosa County had good schools in the early State of Alabama - The article below is…
Researching in Alabama can be quite confusing at times because County lines changed often. Many times a family seems to have moved frequently when…
This news article from October 7, 1892, appeared in The Alexander City Outlook, Alabama and revealed the following about President Cleveland's protege. Further research…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII GREEN MACK WOOD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1792-1866) Montgomery,…
Today, LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college, affiliated with the Methodist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. LaGrange College actually opened…
The old Lyric theatre in Birmingham, Alabama has an interesting history. Located on the corner of Third Avenue and Eighteenth Street, it was originally…
In 1874, Birmingham, Alabama was a new city, only three years old. and when Thanksgiving drew near, the Birmingham Iron Age, published an article…
[In the later days of the Civil War, life was very difficult in Alabama for the average citizens as this story indicates.] WARNING! This…
We've all heard the song “Stars Fell on Alabama” and assume it came from the book titled with the same name written by Carl…
Camp Sheridan While based at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama during World War I, the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, met and fell in…
Ordered to meet on the Cahaba In February 1814, Colonel Russell marched his regiment and two companies of volunteers, from Fort Claiborne to the…
Beginning with one employee, a mule, and a foot-powered bottling machine, Crawford Johnson Sr. purchased the exclusive franchise rights, in 1902, to bottle and…
The 1892 Alabama Cadets football team represented the University of Alabama in the 1892 college football season. The team was led by head coach…
Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his…
This biography is included in the Book First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama Volume I HUGH M. WARREN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. ca. 1800)…
The Masonic Apron by Vicky Clemmons My deep love and devotion for the older generations have always been evident by the company I keep,…
In 1937, the Van de Graaff family sold their land in Wilcox County, Alabama to the federal government, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA)…
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 01, Spring Issue 1943 – please remember that the vocabulary used is from a different…
This biography of Col. Jonathan Newton Smith is in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers Volume I COLONEL JONATHAN NEWTON SMITH…
[The Cahaba River has been an integral part of the growth of Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama.] Originally located on the west side In 1828,…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE RECIPE GREEN CORN FRITTERS 1886 RECIPE Cut through the centre of each row of kernels, then press out the centre…
![PATRON + Actor Gary Cooper once spoke about the quality Alabama marble in a movie? [see old films & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/al-sylacauga_marble_quarry_2-220x138.jpg)
![PATRON – A town in Alabama was once named Utopia. Do you know which one? [photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/memorial-bidge-220x165.jpg)
![PATRON + Wilcox was a center of Alabama antebellum plantation life [see old pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/allenton-feature-e1433021733730-220x82.jpg)
![PATRON + The University of Alabama football team was represented by the Alabama cadets in 1892 [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1892_Alabama_Football_Team-220x170.jpg)
![PATRON + Centreville in Bibb County, Alabama moved from west side of the Cahaba River to east [video & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bibb_County_Alabama_courthouse-220x148.jpg)
