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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,…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I AND Additional genealogical information can be found in Some Terry Families…
A second part of the transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA…
REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi Foreword (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Nestled among the rolling…
This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records MARTHA HILL…
Some fun thoughts about genealogy and history. I like the first and last one best. The one who dies with the most ancestors wins!…
EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants…
MOUNT IDA County Road 11, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK! …
ORANGE VALE OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE (MRS. SCEARS LEE) A few miles on…
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF GREENSBORO, ALABAMA1 (published 1908) As far as can be ascertained, the first service by a clergyman of the Protestant…
Sometimes, incidents like the following story are why we have difficulty tracing certain family members in our ancestry. This transcribed newspaper extract was published…
This tips date back to the early 1800s in America. Some of them may not be safe. Artificial Mahogany1 The following method of giving…
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