Alabama Industry Days display in the window at the Alabama Gas Corporation building at 220 Montgomery Street in Montgomery, Alabama April 16, 1955 -(Q78803 Photographer John E. Scott) The following products are featured Alga Syrup, Piknik Mayonnaise, May’s Salad Dressing, Alabama Beauty Flour, and Merritt’s Beaten Biscuits. (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
1957 Ford Fairlane to be given away by the Junior Chamber of Commerce during the 1956 South Alabama Fair in Montgomery, Alabama. Oct. 10, 1956 (Q74654 Alabama Department of Archives and History)
Line formation at the Grand March Servicemen and young women in lines at the USO club in Montgomery, Alabama, located at 123 Lee Street. ca. the 1940s (Q7328 Alabama Department of Archives and History)
ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories is a collection of lost and forgotten stories about the people who discovered and initially settled in Alabama.
Some stories include:
- The true story of the first Mardi Gras in America and where it took place
- The Mississippi Bubble Burst – how it affected the settlers
- Did you know that many people devoted to the Crown settled in Alabama –
- Sophia McGillivray- what she did when she was nine months pregnant
- Alabama had its first Interstate in the early days of settlement
About Donna R Causey
Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey
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