The National Holiday which is known today as Veterans Day was called Armistice Day before 1954. The change in the name came about due to Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama. Raymond Weeks memorial at Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama Originally, Armistice Day was commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the […]
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PATRON – Biography: William Johnson Boykin born Nov. 8, 1861 – photograph
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PATRON + Vice-President Aaron Burr Charged With Treason
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Journal of James A. Tait For The Year 1813
JOURNAL OF JAMES A. TAIT FOR THE YEAR 1813.1 (Diary entries from the 25th of August 1813 to the 25th of March 1815). Edited by Peter A. Brannon James A. Tait was born at Cokesbury College, Maryland, September 8, 1771) He died on his plantation at Dry Forks, Wilcox County, Alabama, February 10, 1855. Mr. […]
November 4-13, 2022 is the date for peanuts in Dothan – home of the National Peanut Festival since 1938
[The location of the National Peanut Festival is at the fairgrounds on US Highway 231 South. According to the National Peanut festival website: “The National Peanut Festival, the nation’s largest peanut festival, is held in Dothan, Alabama each fall to honor local peanut farmers and to celebrate the harvest season.” Located in the southeast corner […]
PATRON + Laid waste by a tornado in 1908, Albertville, Alabama rose again from the ruins
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PATRON + The Alabama Territory Through An 1819 Visitor’s Eyes
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PATRON – Personal and local news from around Jones Valley and Elyton April 1, 1854
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PATRON – Notice to some Delinquent Tax Payers May 23, 1901 in Elba, Alabama
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Notorious Robber Strikes Fear In The Hearts Of Early Pioneers
This story can also be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: A Collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories After the opening of roads through the wilderness to Tennessee, the return of traders, supercargoes, and boatmen to the northern settlements with the proceeds of their voyage was on foot and on horseback, in parties for mutual protection, […]
PATRON – Local and State news and Home for Confederates – from Elba, Alabama May 1901
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PATRON – Personals – On October 6, 1905, this was what many Florence, Alabama residents were doing
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Secret political society – Union League of America
UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA (This has been transcribed verbatim from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen – Please remember the time period and be aware of offensive language) UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA is a secret political society, which originated in the Northern States in […]
1826 Frontier Evangelist Henry Bryson – Part II
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART II Extracted Alabama Travels of Henry Bryson 1826 SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA This day I came on down to John Seely’s and here spent the night 5 miles below Willson Hill. Willson’s […]
AUTHOR SUNDAY: What really caused the sinking of the Monmouth and the killing of over 300 Indians?
What really caused the sinking of the Monmouth and the killing of over 300 Indians?
PATRON + Clayton claims to have sent forth 1st soldiers to enlist for duration of Civil War [vintage pics]
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PATRON – Official Appointments by Gov. Parsons of Alabama after the War Between the States
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PATRON + List of all the Free & Accepted Masons of Alabama in 1921 – Lodges were started before Alabama was a state
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On June 1, 1819, President Monroe surprised Huntsville, Alabama citizens with a visit
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants President Monroe’s Surprise Visit To Huntsville “Flurry and excitement” greeted President Monroe and two of his cabinet officers as they rode on horse-back, and unannounced, into the small town of Huntsville, Alabama on Tuesday, June 1, 1819. Huntsville was designated by Congress as […]
PATRON – March 1861 – Clayton, Some names in legal notices include Hancock, Smith, McDonald, Pipkin, Calhoun, Thomas and more
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PATRON – Preparing for the War Between the States, deaths, and a divorce occurred in Clayton, Alabama March 1861
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PATRON + Edwin D. King, founder of Howard College, kept a small country tavern on side of the road
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PATRON – Local news from The American Banner (Bay Minette, Alabama, September 16, 1899)
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PATRON – Biography: William Alexander Burns born August 13, 1860
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PATRON + Deputy Hurt by Alleged ‘Leggers in Dec. 1923 & Drunkards high code of honor
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PATRON – Biography: Robert Price Heacock born August 10, 1861
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TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – the historic towns of Jackson, Cahaba, Fort Jackson – some were successful
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the 4th 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 […]
PATRON – Anne Newport Royall – relates a humorous incident from July 1821 in Florence, Alabama
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PATRON + Letter from Dr. C. A. Woodruff explains thoughts on causes of disease in 1844
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PATRON + Camp Ground Bethlehem Church, Graham, Alabama dates back to 1852 – with link to cemetery survey
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