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PATRON + Anecdotes about some people buried at Old LaGrange Cemetery, Colbert County, Alabama
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PATRON – Biography: Edmond Pierce Anderson (1800 – 1827) Lawrence County, Alabama
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PATRON + Jefferson County and Blount County in Alabama were once the same
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PATRON – This Alabama county had the name Baine before the Civil War
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PATRON – Jackson County, Alabama boundaries have changed three times
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PATRON – Lawrence County, Alabama was named for the Captain who said, “Never give up the ship”
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PATRON – Cherokees were the first settlers in the Tennessee Valley of Alabama [names of delegates]
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PATRON – Fort Payne is one of the few forts used to intern Cherokees in 1838 prior to their removal of which surface ruins can still be seen
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PATRON + Jackson County, Alabama held it’s first county court in Sauta Cave
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PATRON + Oscar Ridley and the lost silver mine in Jackson County, Alabama
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PATRON + Scraps V -George Witty was the first child born in Limestone County, Alabama
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PATRON + Limestone County, Alabama – Scraps I – described (with settlers) by a resident in 1867
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PATRON + Coosa County, Alabama was in the middle of the Creek Indian War – Here’s why –
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DeKalb County, Alabama was created on January 9, 1836 – see names of many early citizens [films]
Nestled in the northeast, Alabama mountains, the beautiful county of DeKalb has a rich and intriguing history filled with sadness, as well as ‘boom times.’ DeKalb County was once home of the famous Cherokee Native American Sequoyah, an Cherokee Chief who single-handily created an alphabet which allowed an entire nation of Indians the ability to read and write. […]
PATRON – Notes found on the 1850 census of Perry County, Alabama
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This Alabama County changed it’s name over the issue of slavery [Many settlers surnames included]
(Many people in Alabama changed their views on slavery as this story reveals)The Alabama County of Calhoun was created by the legislature December 18, 1832, from the land ceded by the Treaty of Cusseta, executed March 24, 1832. It lost part of its original territory by the formation of Cleburne, December 6, 1866, and Etowah […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 7 – First welcome speech ever made on Alabama soil was voiced in Talladega county
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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (A-C counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1867
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PATRON + The land that would eventually become Madison County, Alabama was an Indian hunting ground
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Amazing Grace sung in Cherokee Language -beautiful!
CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT Part I By Rev. J. D. Anthony From a clipping from the Gadsden Times (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 03, Fall Issue 1946) In compliance with a promise made you some time since, I now furnish you with the first chapter of “Reminiscences […]
Location of Chiaha, and Cherokees – Part I – Excerpt from Hugh Cardon’s 1936
Cherokee County, Alabama – DeSoto and Chiaha where DeSoto visited HUGH CARDON’S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Part I Mr. Hugh Cardon wrote the following history of Cherokee County on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the county in 1936. This history was published in the COOSA RIVER NEWS on Friday, August 7, 1936. […]
Early Jefferson County, Alabama – names of some of the earliest pioneers
Jefferson county was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. The territory from which this county was formed was taken from Blount County. Since 1890, however, a portion of Jefferson has been annexed to Walker, and a part of Shelby to Jefferson.The county has a total area of 719,360 acres, or 1,124 […]
PATRON + MARSHALL COUNTY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO -written in 1900 – Part I
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Oldest cemetery in Madison County is disappearing in the woods and needs your help to preserve it
Madison County, Alabama is considered the birthplace of Alabama, established on December 13, 1808. One of the earliest known cemeteries is Cumberland Presbyterian Campground, Mount Paran Cemetery is in New Market, Alabama. It is located off Winchester Road. Cemetery established in 1806 The cemetery was established as early as 1806 and is the final resting […]
Invention by G. W. Wimpee of Centre, Alabama in 1874
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Part VII Joel D. Murphree – Civil War letters
Tap here to see how to Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction “by H. E. STERKX (Dr. Sterkx was a member of the history faculty, Troy State Teachers College) Part VII JOEL DYER MURPHREE TO WIFE, Lagrange, Ga., Oct. 3, 1864 Ursuala I […]
Gadsden – City of Champions was an exciting place Christmas of 1940- [vintage photos from Christmas 1940 & film]
The first substantial white settlement in what is now Gadsden was a village called “Double Springs”.This was begun by a mixed American Indian and Caucasian settler named John Riley when he built his house near two springs in about 1825. His home became a stagecoach stop on the Huntsville-to-Rome Georgia route. The home below was taken from its […]
Moonshine stories from 1964, some interesting and one tragic
Moonshine was a popular way to make a living during the days of prohibition in Alabama. Here are some interesting stories, concerning moonshine in Alabama found in newspapers from the past. Below ground vats of liquor stills in Chambers County, Alabama ca. 1950s (by photographer Roy Green, Jr.Alabama Department of Archives and History) From Ocala […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 20 – Sketches of early bar members
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