(Here are some quick facts and names of charter members and early members of the Colonial Dames and DAR of Alabama. Most of the facts come from early 1900’2 when it was written.) The National Society of Colonial Dames of America was organized in Wilmington, Deleware, in 1892, having for its purposes the collection of manuscripts, […]
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PATRON – Genealogy notes from JACKSONVILLE REGISTER, ALABAMA January 28, 1837
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Can you guess how many times the capital of Alabama moved? Here’s the answer [vintage pictures]
The Territory of Alabama was created by a division of Mississippi Territory in 1817, with St. Stephens as its capital city. The first and second Territorial Legislature met there — the first on the 18th of January, 1818, and the second in November of the same year. Marker of the first capital of Alabama Met […]
PATRON + Brooklyn, Alabama had one of the last remaining post offices inside a general store
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PATRON + First highways in Alabama were only beaten trails and sometimes travelers were entangled in vegetation
First highways in Alabama were only beaten trails and sometimes travelers became entangled in vegetation as the two men did.
PATRON + These epidemics and Acts caused many ancestors to flee their homes
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PATRON – Choctaw County Personal News – measles were prevalent in 1890
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PATRON + Gen. LaFayette letters – Followup details by Government after Gen. LaFayette’s visit to Alabama
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PATRON – Peter Ray sold 5,037 dozen eggs and 16,040 chickens in 1890
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PATRON + Official Arrangements and Plans for General LaFayette visit to Alabama’s capital
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PATRON + Did you know that Federal Income Taxes date back to the end of the Civil War?
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PATRON + Gen. LaFayette letters – LaFayette arrives in Alabama – John Banks reports progress
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PATRON – Thieves steal Montgomery bridge and the University of Alabama was deteriorating
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See original [film, photographs & speech] of the USS Alabama being launched
On January 9, 1965 “the battleship USS Alabama was dedicated in Mobile as a World War II memorial. Commissioned in August 1942, the Alabama served primarily in the Pacific, earning nine battle stars. She was awarded to the state in 1964 through the efforts of the USS Alabama Battleship Commission, and since her dedication has become a […]
The Old Tooth Pullers – when you’re desperate – this is what you had to do
The “Old Tooth Pullers” by Hylott L. Armstrong, Jr. Sometime in the 1920’s my Grandfather, William Henry (“Bill Henry”) Crawford, moved from Edgewater (a mining town near Ensley) to the unincorporated Town of Shelby, Shelby County, Alabama. Accompanying him was his daughter (my Mama), Emma Dell Crawford. His first wife, Emma Theodosia Merrell-Crawford, had died […]
PATRON + Richardson, Dellet, Parsons, Dale & more early pioneers of Monroe County
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PATRON – Alabama News on August 8, 1858 included a fire, two murders, a convention, and an election
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PATRON + MARSHALL COUNTY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO -written in 1900 – Part I
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On Aug 6, 1879 – 30,000 people from Memphis fled from an epidemic – some were put off in the woods rather than allow entrance into Alabama
On Aug 6, 1879 – 30,000 people from Memphis fled from epidemic – some were put off in the woods rather than allow entrance into Alabama SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . On August 6, 1879 citizens of Alabama were in a near panic over the potential spread of a Yellow Fever epidemic from […]
Refugees from Scotland traveled to the American Colonies before the Revolutionary War
(continued transcription from Alabama had a large population of settlers from Scotland in its founding days) THE HIGHLAND SCOTCH (sic) ELEMENT IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF ALABAMA By THOMAS CHALMERS McCORVEY, LL.D. (Transcribed from original (including misspellings) The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 01, No. 01, Spring Issue 1930) Refugee Highlanders leave for American Colonies III. The […]
PATRON – Biography: Dr. Andrew Jay, Jr. born June 28, 1851 – photograph
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PATRON + Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama – epidemic caused the change of county seat
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PATRON – Last of the Creeks, and brutal murders took place in Alabama during April 1839
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PATRON + Yellow fever epidemics in Alabama and free land
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PATRON – On July 25, – A Prisoner wore a dress to escape & other news from Birmingham in 1877
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PATRON + Pike County, Alabama, the county seat was once in Monticello
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PATRON + Letter from Gov. Bagby to his wife written 1849
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TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – the ghost town of Blakeley was destined to become a great city!
(Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY) (The following story is the second section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of early towns in the Alabama Territory. 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, […]
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 […]
TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Descriptions of St. Stephens and Fort Claiborne from 1817!
Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the third section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of early towns in 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 […]