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PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST & FILM -Forks of Cypress -1822 mansion in Florence, Alabama, had an air-conditioned basement
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PATRON + Limestone County -Scraps II – Names of the first settlers of and where they lived
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PATRON + Abraham Mordecai lost his ear and almost his life in early Montgomery County, Alabama
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PATRON + A wonderful description from 1859 of the first building on Auburn University’s campus
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Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 14 – 15 Descriptions of early Pioneers
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIV – XV The Circuit Courts, in the beginning of the Judicial history of the County, were eight in number composed of not less than three nor more than six counties. Talladega was the third Circuit, and Greene, Tuscaloosa, Shelby, Randolph and Benton were […]
PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS: Mules were valuable to many Alabama farmers – here is why
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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 […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST PATRON + Did you know that Huntsville, Alabama has the distinction of having the oldest public water system in the United States west of the Appalachians?
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PATRON – In Chilton County 1921, bridges were being closed and the women had meetings
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AUTHOR SUNDAY: A Special Reunion – a family reunited
A SPECIAL REUNION by FRED HARVEY WILLIAMS My name is Fred Harvey Williams and my GGGGrandfather George French came to Alabama from Greenville, SC in about 1843. My parents divorced when I was less than a year old and I never knew my father’s family. I found them in 1997 and discovered that I had six brothers […]
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 + B. B. Comer Bridge was the only remaining bridge of original 15 toll bridges
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Anne Newport Royall – relates in 1821 letter her impression of Huntsville, Alabama
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband died, she was left penniless and she toured Alabama for four years as one of the first newspaperwomen in America. She wrote letters to her friends about Alabama and the […]
PATRON + Letter from Gov. Bagby to his wife written 1849
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PATRON + Lewis’ Tavern – in Macon County, Alabama was owned by the son-in-law of Big Warrior
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Death Notices from the 1885 Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama
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Thompson’s death, Gough’s divorce, and more names occurred in Tuscumbia, Alabama 1824 newspaper
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Death Notices from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama in 1884
(This was transcribed for the 1st edition of THE CAHABA JOURNAL and it is included here using the same words from as published in THE CAHABA JOURNAL) DEATH NOTICES FROM THE BIBB BLADE Bibb Blade, January 3, 1884 Died at his residence near Woodstock, in this county, Ala., Mr. J. M. WOOD, on the 24th. […]
Convicts of Alabama – State Penitentiary November 1846
CONVICTS OF ALABAMA STATE PENITENTIARY, November 1846 (from Ancestry.com -transcribed by Steven Jackson) As a general rule of the early Alabama frontiersmen, the administration of justice was best left in the hands of the local citizens, or when available, with county officials. Even in the county seats, justice was swift and harsh, as the towns […]
Randolph County, Alabama – (D) – Civil War soldiers with links to gravesites
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA (Surname starting with D- some with links to gravesites) All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI Daniel, Hartford Moss, born Oct 25, 1839, died Jul 1, 1915; member of the 5th Battalion of Hilliard’s […]
Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 24 – Confederate troops from Talladega
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIV On the 4th day of February, 1861, delegates from six of the seceded states assembled at Montgomery, Alabama, and established a government, (and on February 18th, Jefferson Davis was Inaugurated) as Provisional President and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, as Provisional Vice-President. Many […]
AUTHOR SUNDAY – The Catawba Indians, though a war-like nation – forgotten friends of the white settlers
In the story Native Americans fought on both sides of the Civil War , only the five Native American tribes were mentioned. The Catawba Indians have often been left out of historical accounts. A reader graciously shared this information about the Catawbas and their participation in the Civil War. The The Catawba Nation is the only federally recognized tribe […]
Beautiful Paint Rock Valley, Alabama “Little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah” [pictures and story]
PAINT ROCK VALLEY, ALABAMA PIONEERS (posted to public stories Ancestry.com by genealogygeek) Flanked by steep mountains and threaded by a meandering river, Paint Rock Valley in the northeast corner of Alabama is one of the most beautiful valleys in the state. Lush and green, it has been called “a little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah”, which is […]
PATRON – Local news from Shottsville and Bear Creek, Alabama in January 17, 1896
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PATRON + “Milly was alone in the wilderness” of Montgomery, Alabama in 1792
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PATRON – Sand Mountain Melungeon Families – some believe Elvis Presley was one
(Transcribed by Donna R. Causey) SAND MOUNTAIN MELUNGEON FAMILIES A DNA PERSPECTIVE FROM WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH AND JEWS AMONG THE INDIANS by DONALD N. YATES. Sand Mountain is a flat-topped extension of the Cumberland Plateau stretching over a hundred miles along the Tennessee River in the states of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Its […]
PATRON + Wilcox was a center of Alabama antebellum plantation life [see old pics]
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PATRON + News article written in 1852 about Maj. William J. Howard’s furniture factory works in Macon County
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PATRON + Brundidge, Alabama was nearly leveled by a tornado April 8, 1937
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