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PATRON – The Butler County News – 1914 include personal news from Bethel West and Garland of singings and dancing
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A legendary fight took place on this date in Alabama
Captain Sam Dale – Alabama Pioneer An episode of the Creek Indian War, November 12, 1813. Following Fort Mims massacre, numerous depredations were made by Indians throughout the entire settled sections of the country, temporary forts were erected, and a general unrest prevailed. However, events were slowly maturing for relief. Among the settlers themselves, brave […]
Deciphering the various train whistles was once a form of cheap entertainment
Trains by Inez McCollum I grew up across the street from a railroad track. When we had guests and a train would pass by shaking the house and making so much noise conversation would momentarily stop, my Dad would point to the track and say: “Train!” I found an address so that I could request […]
Is this a photograph from the Titanic? [see film] No, it is one of many steamships built by an Alabama native before the Civil War
When the building of steamboats was still in its infancy, one Alabamian built floating palaces, as fine and as fast as money could produce. Tobin never stinted but gave bountifully; his cuisine and appointments were perfect. He prided himself on having the largest, finest and fastest boat upon the Mississippi river, the famous J. M. […]
PATRON -Transcriptions from Birmingham Iron Age published on March 12, 1874
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PATRON + Maybe we should adopt this Native American way of settling disputes – we’d have less bloodshed
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Did you know the French occupied Alabama for sixty-five years?
This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at Amazon.com (continued below) FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ALABAMA (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882) For sixty-five years the French held the territory now included in Alabama. The population of […]
PATRON + The Alabama Territory Through An 1819 Visitor’s Eyes
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Many Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama found in 1901
The State of Alabama had many ancient Native American mounds in the early days. Many of these are no longer visible, but in 1901 before highways were built, mounds were located in the following places. Known Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama1 Written in 1901 Baldwin County Mound on Perdido Bay, near Josephine post-office, containing […]
PATRON – Personal and local news from around Jones Valley and Elyton April 1, 1854
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A Warning Saves Many Lives
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) A Warning Saves Many Lives In 1812, the long-threatened war between the United States and Great Britain was formally declared. At the beginning of the war, the Americans had asserted their title to the town and harbor of Mobile, which, although a part of the territory ceded […]
The beginning of Alabama occurred with a proclamation
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Land Is Ceded For The Mississippi Territory in 1735 From 1735, large bodies of unfortunate adherents of the British cause fled from South Carolina and Georgia through the dense and pathless forests in what would become the future State of Alabama. They laid […]
PATRON – Fire in Union Springs, – Accounts of Accidents, deaths & Interesting Happenings October 20, 1883
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PATRON + Tragic fire on March 10, 1934, threatened to destroy Birmingham.
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PATRON – Sep. 21, 1908 – election in Dothan, no one knew about – secret orders and new businesses
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PATRON – Cottonville, New Hope, and High Point, Alabama – many citizens in local news Jan. 1903
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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 + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Banana Fritters recipe form 1948
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PATRON + Gen. LaFayette letters – Governor Israel Pickens prepares for Gen. LaFayette’s arrival
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PATRON – On October 6, 1905 Lauderdale native fights evil in Birmingham
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PATRON – Official Appointments by Gov. Parsons of Alabama after the War Between the States
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Biography: Levi Welbourne Lawler born October 4, 1816
LEVI WELBOURNE LAWLER BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1816-1892) Madison, Shelby, Talladega Counties Levi Welbourne Lawler, business man, was born Oct. 4, 1816, in Madison County; son of Joab “Buck” Lawler (1796-1838), and Elizabeth Baker Lawler (1796-1826). In early life, he united with the Baptist Talladega church, of which his father was pastor in 1835. General Levi […]
PATRON + List of all the Free & Accepted Masons of Alabama in 1921 – Lodges were started before Alabama was a state
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A gift from Japan created a whole new industry in Alabama in 1878.
SATSUMA DAY The town of Satsuma in Mobile County, Alabama was originally named Fig Tree Island but was renamed Satsuma in 1915 for a mandarin orange presented to Alabama in 1878 as a gift from Emperor Meiji of Japan. In less than two years, this mandarin orange was planted widely along the Gulf Coast and soon became a […]
Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British?
Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? (Text continued below) Speculation in Muscle Shoals “In 1783, six North Carolinians formed a company for the purpose of establishing a colony at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. The company was composed of both easterners and frontiersmen, the […]
Did you know that the Legislature branch was superior in Alabama’s first constitution?
This story and more can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood: Lost & Forgotten Stories Forty-four delegates gathered in a vacant cabinet shop on July 5, 1819, to organize the Territory of Alabama into the 22nd state. A print shop owned by John Boardman, Clement Comer Clay’s law office, the Federal Land Surveyor’s office, a post […]
A Tennessee woman was captured by Creek Indians & taken to Black Warrior town in Alabama
(This story was written in 1916. Mr. Clinton was a contributor to the old Alabama Historical Society, reprinted in The Alabama Historical Quarterly 1930) EARLY HISTORY OF TUSCALOOSA MRS. CRAWLEY’S RESCUE By THOMAS P. CLINTON The next white person who came to the place where Tuscaloosa now stands was a Mrs. Crawley of Humphries County, Tennessee. She […]
PATRON – Ladies Hospital Association Meeting was held in Masonic Hall in Claiborne, Alabama in 1864
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PATRON – August 4, 1894 – Personals from The Times Daily, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama – reveals many residents names
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