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(Here are some quick facts and names of charter members and early members of the Colonial Dames and DAR of Alabama. Most of the facts…
(transcribed with misspellings etc., from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a detailed record of events...pub. by Benjamin Franklin Riley 1881) Early Bellville Settlement…
The Territory of Alabama was created by a division of Mississippi Territory in 1817, with St. Stephens as its capital city. The first and…
First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana "On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a…
JOYNER CEMETERY Written in Stone by Sherry S. Johnston Researching the Joyner Cemetery located between Owassa and Wilcox communities recently made me aware once…
Steward’s 10 Cent Store A Childhood Memory By Thelma Ann Smelser I was riding through Piedmont, Alabama, a while back when something caught my…
Narrative of Former Slave Charlie Aarons, Oak Grove, Mobile, Alabama. Written August 6, 1937 (Born in Slavery, Library of Congress) This is the copy…
CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
Jefferson county was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. The territory from which this county was formed was taken from…
The New Deal initiated by Franklin D. Roosevelt included employment programs for jobless white-collar workers to collect narratives and life histories of former slaves.…
A delicate paper revealed the truth by Lawanna McLeod Walthall Throughout our McLeod family history, we were told that our Grandfather that came from…
I served on the faculty of the College of William and Mary for a day by Shannon Hollon A few years ago back during…
By Jean Butterworth Attending a small Baptist church in the country when I was young was a very different experience than attending church today.…
This small community in Barbour County had 400-500 residents and four churches in pioneer days. A local historian, Margaret Clayton Russell, talked about Batesville in…
I Want by Barbara A Brown Ms. Brown's "I Want" article was originally posted in 1994 to the National Genealogical Conference, FIDO bulletin board…
On January 9, 1965 "the battleship USS Alabama was dedicated in Mobile as a World War II memorial. Commissioned in August 1942, the Alabama served primarily…
Mountain Tom Clark was a notorious outlaw gang leader who terrorized helpless citizens after the Civil War. He confessed to at least nineteen murders.…
The “Old Tooth Pullers” by Hylott L. Armstrong, Jr. Sometime in the 1920’s my Grandfather, William Henry (“Bill Henry”) Crawford, moved from Edgewater (a…
Serendipity Moments by Dalia Tharp Garrison I began researching my heritage about 6 years ago. My husband and I retired and moved from Colorado…
CORN BREAD By Inez McCollum Corn bread is older than our country. Native Americans were making corn bread when the settlers came to America. …
The following article is an excerpt from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 that describes some historic sites and ghost…
Big Al is the University of Alabama's mascot and has been associated with the U of A since the 1930's. Alabama elephants ca. 1950s…
On Aug 6, 1879 - 30,000 people from Memphis fled from epidemic - some were put off in the woods rather than allow entrance…
A wonderful memory from the past! AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART II By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We went…
(continued transcription from Alabama had a large population of settlers from Scotland in its founding days) THE HIGHLAND SCOTCH (sic) ELEMENT IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT…
Robertson & Phillips My ancestors on one side of the family are Robertsons. I have traced them back to the 1200’s in Scotland. On…
Madison County, Alabama is considered the birthplace of Alabama, established on December 13, 1808. One of the earliest known cemeteries is Cumberland Presbyterian Campground,…
One of the first educational institutions in the Alabama was opened in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the fall of 1830 called the Tuscaloosa Female Academy…
(The following story is the first section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of Mobile, Blakeley, St. Stephens and Jackson,…
Here is how our ancestors took care of some common problems they faced. Some are helpful today. Weighing cheese, Arthur Rothstein 1937 (Library of…
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