Historical events in that have occurred in Baldwin County include the following: In 1560, across its northern border marched the Tristan de Luna expedition from Mobile Bay on its way to found the short-lived colony of Nanipacna, located most probably on Boykins’ Ridge in Wilcox County. About a century and a half later the soldiers of […]
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PATRON + If I had a-knowed you were coming I’d had something good
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST First woman race car driver was killed in crash at Alabama State Fairgrounds in Birmingham
Women race car and stunt drivers were quite popular in the early days of automobile racing. One outstanding driver was Elfrieda Mais who was born June 19, 1893 in Indianapolis, Indiana was perhaps the first. She was billed as the “only woman auto racer in the world,” in the Wichita Beacon of Wednesday, June 28, […]
PATRON – News from around the State of Alabama and legal notices Scott & Richardson estates
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PATRON + Yellow Fever was a fearsome disease in 1850s as this letter reveals
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How a system of education was developed in early Alabama Part II -written by the first superintendent in 1898
(Continued from Part I – How a system of Public education developed in early Alabama Part II -The author Gen. William F. Perry was the first superintendent of education in Alabama) Alabama was the first of the Cotton States to develop an education system How a system of education was developed in early Alabama Part II […]
PATRON – News from Uniontown, Perry County, Ala. Dec. 21st, 1865 & Confederacy news
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Talladega’s Spring Street Recreational Center was once the home of the USO club
The Spring Street Recreational Center was a busy place during WWII. It was the home of the USO Club in Talladega, Talladega County, Alabama. Couple at Spring Street Recreational Center, Talladega, Alabama Talladega, Alabama, rich in history and tradition, home to the Talladega Superspeedway, and at the foot of Cheaha State Park was also the place […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Huntsville, Alabama has a long history
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the 5th section of a news article written in 1817 which describes some early towns of Alabama. It was published in 1817 when Alabama was still a Territory and first printed in the New York Herald, then copied in the Alabama Republican, and finally published […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Haunted houses in Tuscumbia, Alabama hold many stories
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell ca. 1938) Continued below Haunted Houses Near Tuscumbia written ca. 1938 by WPA writer Susan Russell Colbert County, Alabama One-half mile to the left of Jackson Highway, which connects Sheffield and Tuscumbia, three ivy-covered towers mark the Andrew Jackson House, which is invested […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST Marion, Perry County, Alabama was once called Muckle’s Ridge
Note: The city of Marion was first named Muckle’s Ridge, but was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married to a local girl in 1840 and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, was born in Perry County. She attended the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Many […]
Six more vintage photographs of Captains in the Confederacy at the ADAH
Do you have additional information about these Confederate soldiers? Click on the link at the end to inform the Alabama Department of Archives and History. You can also order a copy of the photograph from them. Captain Robert Benjamin Kyle, Company A, 31st Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. Q2474 Captain Robert M. Sands, Mobile Cadets. The Mobile […]
PATRON + What’s the use of me talking about them times, its all passed and gone.
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PATRON – September 18, 1903 – Some Atmore farmers were interested in growing strawberries
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General Sam Dale gives eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s visit to Alabama in 1811
General Sam Dale gives an eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s visit to Alabama in 1811 Scroll down to read story The Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, came among the Native Americans in the south to incite them to hostilities against the whites. He was the emissary of the British, with whom the federal government was at […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Baldwin, a county in Alabama where the Court House was stolen [film and photographs]
(This is an almost unbelievable story but is true as local citizens agree. The story of what took place is recounted in the films.) In the first days of Baldwin County, the Town of McIntosh Bluff (now in Mobile County, Alabama, west of Baldwin County) on the Tombigbee River was the County seat. In 1810, Blakeley, (now […]
PATRON + Ex-slave Julia Baker was born in VA – taken to AL when three-years-old
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PATRON – Choctaw Crossing Places on the Tombigbee River
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Stroll through the haunted Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama and visit the the famous people buried there
[Note – The annual Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll will take place this year October 20, 2019 from 1:30 The PODCAST was recorded at an earlier date. This event is free to the public and features over 75 locals dressed in period costume portraying both the famous and infamous people buried at Maple Hill Cemetery along […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST -PATRON + Elberta, Alabama is home to pioneer German colonists & Dinosaurs in the Woods
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PATRON – Legal notices Stephenson, Cox, & Megginson in Macon, Ala. in 1845
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Down the Alabama River – Day Nine on August 19, 1814
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day Nine on August 19, 1814 (Continued) An amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River on August 19, 1814 Day Nine Scroll down to read story Over the next few days, we will follow the day by day journey of the first survey of the […]
PATRON – Names of Political Candidates & Obituary of George W. Currin in Macon, AL, in 1845
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Now he’s the one can tell you about Dictators and Democrats
(Works Progress Administration interview from 1938 – transcribed exactly as written – including misspelled words, etc.) JIM HOLBACK Dangerous Democrat Tuscaloosa, Alabama by WPA writer R. D. Lucky October 17, 1938 The thing that seemed to worry Jim Holback most right now was his fifth-grade education. “I wish you’d of happened along by here yesterday”, […]
Down the Alabama River in 1814 – Day Seven on August 17, 1814
Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day Seven on August 17, 1814 This amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River on August 17, 1814 Day seven (Continued) Scroll down to read story Over the next few days, we will follow the day by day journey of the first survey of the […]
PATRON + Ex-Alabama slave knew Pres. George Washington and Andrew Jackson
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PATRON + Surveying Alabama – Trading Houses Established
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PATRON – Two unfortunate deaths, and trial of G. W. Gale of Cahawba, Alabama in 1865
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PATRON+ Siney Bonner – former slave in Pickens County
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PATRON + Dellie Lewis – Born in Slavery -knew about cures and conjers
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