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UPDATED WITH PODCAST Huntsville pioneers settled around “The Big Spring” revealed to them by the Cherokee and Chickasaw

  Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as “the big spring”.  Hearing of the abundant water source and plentiful big game, John Hunt, Huntsville’s founder, sought out the spring and settled near it in 1805 on the bluff above, which later […]

Legend of Blue Pond or Woodstock Spring in Calhoun County, Alabama

During the 1930s, the Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers.  This is a transcribed, unedited, handwritten story […]