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I discovered these old photographs from Auburn University while doing some research. If you have more information about them, click on the link at…
Glazed Louisiana Yams 1 can yams 7 T. margarine 3 T. lemon juice 3 T. honey or 4 1/2 T. brown sugar 1/ 1/2…
COOKING and KITCHEN HINTS FROM THE PAST Lumpy gravy can be avoided by adding a little salt in the flour before adding the water…
MASTIN HILL HANSARD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1830-aft. 1904) Talladega county, Alabama Mastin Hill Hansard was one of the leading farmers of Talladega county. He…
Some people believed in engraving their trades on their tombstones. Epitaph to blind woodsawyer in Georgia: "While none ever saw him see thousands have…
Veterans Memorial, also called Pea River Bridge, is 100 years old! The bridge still stands next to Hwy 231 in Dale County, Alabama. The…
Sometimes it is funny seeing life through the eyes of a child. A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination,…
LOCAL NEWS IN ALABAMA 1877-1879 (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 Huntsville jail has been satisfactorily repaired.…
Beautiful excerpt from Journal of seventh governor of Alabama reveals their courtship in early 1800s 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh…
This biography is also in the books Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) and FIRST FAMILIES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA VOLUME…
GREENSBORO, ALABAMA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH1 (Published 1908) The first sermon ever preached in Greensboro by a Presbyterian minister was some time prior to 1822 when…
Cusseta Treaty opened land East of the Coosa In 1819, Alabama had been admitted as one of the States of the Federal Union. That…
Household tips for cleaning and painting from the past: If the inside of your linen closet is painted a deep blue, there will be…
Third part of a transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA By…
The Civil War Forts on Mobile Bay The Battle of Mobile Bay was where Admiral Farragut was supposed to have made his famous statement,…
(Do you know who the first governor of Alabama was? You may be surprised.) THE FIRST BRITISH GOVERNOR IN ALABAMA Major Robert Major Over…
I discovered the following article by Allene Sumner in the January 1, 1930 edition of The Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Oh, how times have changed.…
The troops from Tennessee that invaded the Creeks in 1812, marched through Madison County, on their way to way to Baird's Bluff Depositi and made…
PATRON - Sometimes the "Good old days" were not so safe as can be seen by the story from 1919 On February 20, 1919…
A Lamp Explosion (News extract from The Troy Messenger, Troy, Alabama – September 13, 1893 A lamp exploded at Mrs. Loard's on last Saturday…
The CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company.…
(Continued from Part I) THE BUFORD EXPEDITION TO KANSASi By Walter Lynwood Fleming, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Part II On the…
AN EXCERPT FROM EARLY HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY ALABAMA (Covering the period from 1821 to 1900) 1 By MRS. MARGARET PACE FARMER2 EARLY CHURCHES…
WILSON'S RAID AND OTHER RECITAL 1 Recording A Persistent, But Unavailing Attempt To Capture At Montgomery In 1865, Mr. Duncan Blue Graham, Treasurer, And…
PATRON + In colonial days, “preserving meat for the winter or for use during travel was a major concern before canning and usually kept…
Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) WAR TIME FARMING, FOOD SUPPLIES Like the…
THE GREAT OR BROAD SEAL of the THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA A BRIEF. HISTORY1 Presented by Field and Fireside, Inc. Twenty-six Thirteenth Street,…
The brother of a girl who made a living by selling eggs thus pays loving tribute to her memory and advertises his own business:…
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Transcribed From Our Mountain Home (Talladega, Alabama) March 21, 1900 Lots of women save all their classic music for other…
DEDICATION OF THE JOHN T. MILNER BRIDGE December 12, 1929 Address by General R. E. Steiner As a boy, I lived in Greenville, Alabama,…
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