…Dadeville, Alabama Horeshoe Bend Within 12 miles of Dadeville is the Horseshoe Bend in the Tallapoosa River, where Gen. Jackson fought the decisive battle of the Creek War. The old…
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Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day one
…the Mobile, and of Georgia west of the Ocmulgee River. When it ended with the treaty referred to in the text, all west of the Coosa and a line drawn…
Biography: Gen. Anderson Abercrombie born August 28, 1786
…Bend embracing the Indian town of Coweta, part of which purchase money was paid to the Indians and part to the Columbus Land Company. This was a few miles from…
PATRON + Abraham Mordecai lost his ear and almost his life in early Montgomery County, Alabama
…should be so. Both Mordacai and Montgomery saw service at Horseshoe Bend and today Horseshoe Bend is much in the life story of the period—even if the last Congress did…
My Relatives are leaving me very fast – Civil War letters
My Relatives are leaving me very fast (Civil) war-time letters of James Wright to his nephew. Edited by George L. Mahoney1 James Wright of Oswichee Bend, Russell County, Alabama, was…
Autauga County, Alabama – Was this the 1st camp meeting in the new state?
…widow by the name of Roy, a sister of George Stoudemire who settled in the Dutch Bend and was the father of all the Stoudemire’s who settled immediately in that…
Do you have an ancestor who served in the War of 1812?
…placed another boulder at Horse Shoe Bend battle field marking the end of the said trail. This celebration took place July 4, 1914. Monument at Horseshoe Bend, Tallapoosa County, Alabama…
PATRON + Autaugaville Methodist Church began in a log structure in 1822
…two groups over the issue of lay representation. Half of the congregation remained and the other half organized a Methodist Protestant Church in the German settlement called Dutch Bend located…
PATRON – Many Alabamians volunteered to fight in the war against Mexico in 1846 – here are some names
…service in New Orleans and Mobile between August, 1846, and July, 1848, Captain Elmore’s company being mustered out on August 18, 1846, but Captain Gee’s company was not mustered out…
The old swimming hole – there is nothing like it on a hot day
…around the pool observing his antics. After Mack finished with his diving, one of the boys said: “Gee, Mister, I’ll bet you could really dive when you were young!” Mack…
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 9 – Indian Occupancy continued
…mayor of the Talladega town of Eu-fau-lahachee was hereditary in the family of Ho-tul-gee, or family of the Wind, the most aristocratic family of the entire Muscogee confederacy. The micco…
Down the Alabama River in 1814 on August 14 – Day four
…4“Mulberry Creek. 5“Gardner’s Island. 6“The river, having made a great bend, again touches the Durant Place. See Note 27. 7Soapstone Creek, also called Tarver’s Mill Creek. 8This and the two…
PATRON + The Coosa River Crossing of British Refugees in 1781
…Summer Issue 1955 THE COOSA RIVER CROSSING OF BRITISH REFUGEES, 1781 by Peter A. Brannon THE COOSA RIVER CROSSING OF BRITISH REFUGEES, 1781. * PETER A. BRANNON Under the terms…
Combat negative news with positive stories. Encourage your children by sharing ancestor stories like this
…Dickenson Pratt made four sad pilgrimages to the lonely Pratt Cemetery on top of the knoll, a few miles from her home in River bend. The inscriptions on the grey…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST First woman race car driver was killed in crash at Alabama State Fairgrounds in Birmingham
…the fairgrounds at Great Bend, Kansas. On June 15, 1920, Elfrieda returned to the Great Bend Fairgrounds where she covered one mile in 1 minute, 8 seconds on the half-mile…
Biography: Joel Barton Lowery born March 6,1834
Happy Birthday! JOEL BARTON LOWERY (b. March 6, 1834 – d. November 9, 1909) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Joel Barton Lowery was born March 6, 1834, in River Bend, Bibb…
PATRON + Many Uchess went northwest with the Shawnees
…been peculiar to those tribes that inhabited Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Before the Muscogees settled Alabama and Georgia, from what I recollect of the Catawbas, Apilashs, Cherokees and Shawnees,…
PATRON+ Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms
…such fort was on Samuel Mims plantation which was located on an old bend of the Alabama River. The bend had been cut off from the main river and was…
PATRON + Tragedy Followed A Group Of Loyal Native Americans
…prevailing practice of boats going upriver was to stay in the slack water close to the banks and, at the bends, to cross to the far banks where the water…
Down the Alabama River – Day Six on August 16, 1814
…sides—The lands on the left immediately above this, may be said to be one large bend containing 20 or 30,000 acres, the greater part (if not the whole) of which,…
PATRON – August 4, 1894 – Newspaper Personals and Stories from Hope and Rhodesville, Lauderdale County, Alabama
…up to their old home. I think there are some pretty girls up there, but no prettier than the girls in the bend. There are lots of pretty girls in…
Is there a music muse in Muscle Shoals? Read this and decide for yourself [pictures & video]
…as the Muscle Shoals they called “Chaka tsh locko,” which means big shoal. The Chickasaw referred to the great bend of the river in Alabama as Thegalego, and called the…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST Result of Yazoo Land Fraud, Swindlers & Alabama Fever
…within a wide bend of the Alabama River and upon a bluff which formed the opposite bank. The soil in the bend was of the best quality, and the bluff…
Biography: Absalom Pratt born June 22, 1793 Bibb County, Alabama
…her safely to her sister’s home in River Bend. It is told that one day fun-loving Mary, on finishing her dinner, placed a wishbone over the door, telling her sister…
PATRON – Death Notices from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama in 1884
…SMITHERMAN, both of Randolph. Bibb Blade, May 14, 1884 On Tuesday, the 6th inst., the angel of death visited the house hold of Mrs. Griffin, of River Bend, and bore…
PATRON + Washington County…..where the State of Alabama began
…Barlow Bend on the Alabama, numbers of stone relics have been secured, at points indicative of former town sites. At or near St. Stephens was a Choctaw crossing place, near…
PATRON + Shelby County, Alabama- the house with first glass windows is still standing
…Bend, many men were sent up the Cahawba River to search for the remaining “Red Sticks” and traveled through Shelby County. When they returned to Tennessee and Kentucky, they decided…
Biography: General Bartlett Smith born Jan. 23, 1792
…Creek Indian Wars and Gen. Smith established his large plantation along a bend in the Chattahoochee River that is still known today as “Smith’s Bend” both by locals and tourists…
The life and death of Pushmataha from an 1837 newspaper article
…half as high as its father, who comes to look in his father’s face, hanging in the bend of his arm, to tell him his troubles. So, father, I hang…
A Warning Saves Many Lives
…the war-dance. The Muskhogees have not been used to dance before war, but afterward. At that time, about forty of our people began this “northern custom;” and my brother-in-law, Francis, who also…