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Excerpts from The Book of Birmingham by John R. Hornady, Illustrations by W. Paul Pim, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1921 Laying out the early…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell ca. 1938) Continued below Haunted Houses Near Tuscumbia written ca. 1938 by…
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3) First Edition When peace finally came between the United States…
[Many people in the Sylacauga area around the time of WWII can probably relate to this story.] As told to Donna R. Causey by Pearl…
History of the 44th Alabama Regiment written by a member of the regiment in 1898. SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY FORTY-FOURTH ALABAMA REGIMENT By…
Kosaku Sawada was born in Osaka, central Japan Oct. 21, 1882. and pursued an education at Osaka University, graduating with a degree in agriculture. In 1906, he immigrated…
(Excerpt transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama January 16, 1908) ANOTHER RAIL HORROR Passenger and Freight Crash Through High Trestle Five People Killed…
Note: The city of Marion was first named Muckle’s Ridge, but was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later…
This is a beautiful State Park south of Birmingham and a wonderful place for a picnic or outing. They have saved and restored many…
Zebulon Butler, an early settler of the Valley Creek Community in Selma, Alabama built a mill on the swift-rushing waters of Valley Creek to…
Do you have additional information about these Confederate soldiers? Click on the link at the end to inform the Alabama Department of Archives and…
A Toilet by Any Other Names by Inez McCollum The toilet has been the butt of many jokes and has quite a variety of…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
(Transcribed Extract from The Atmore Record Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, September 18, 1903) LOCAL SPECS. Mr. W. M. Carney spent Tuesday in Mobile. Dr.…
The Bryars/Hadley Feud Bryars Hadley Feud (Taken from actual court documents exactly as it was written, and exactly how spelling and words were used)…
General Sam Dale gives an eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh's visit to Alabama in 1811 Scroll down to read story The Shawnee chief,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) By 1836, most of the willing Native-Americans had been removed to the land in the west, and…
On April 12, 1865 the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his command to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) PERRY COUNTY PROBATE NOTICES GUARDIAN'S SALE On Tuesday, the 3d day of…
Jackson Hotel at Blount Springs ca. 1900 Blount Springs - summer resort in rural setting “Blount Springs's mineral springs and rural setting made it…
(This has been exactly transcribed as written in 1944 in The Alabama Historical Quarterly) LAST CONFEDERATE REUNION What will probably prove to be the last…
Betty Jane Rase, was a teenager from Phillips High School in Birmingham, Alabama, then she became Miss Birmingham, Miss Alabama and was suddenly propelled onto the…
The Ghost of Roupes Valley Ironworks(Tannehill Furnaces) by Shannon Hollon Since the late 1800s, locals have told of ghostly images and presences at Tannehill…
RECOLLECTIONS OF CAROLINE LEADINGHAM Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 03, Fall Issue 1956 -- Continued below Our home and the…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) MARRIED On the 21st inst., at the residence of Wm. S. Hanna,…
PATRON + The story from ex-slave & preacher, 94-year-old J. B. Watson, who lived in a shack in Mobile 1939 (WARNING! This WPA interviewer…
Did you know that you can make a custard from potatoes? This recipe is from 1887. SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE STORY POTATO CUSTARD 1887…
Not a Fairy Tale Does the title of this story sound like a fairy tale or too far-fetched to be true? It really happened in the…
Excerpt from a 1946 Canning cookbook Corn is one of the largest packs put up by the commercial canners. It is canned cream style,…
![My first job at Sylacauga cotton Mill – with [rare film footage of Avondale Mills in 50’s]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/syla-220x106.jpg)
![UPDATED WITH POD CAST – Brierfield State Park in Alabama was once a Boom Town [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Brierfield-Iron-Furnace-in-Bibb-county-19902-220x87.jpg)
![UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Gunpowder explodes in warehouse at Mobile and destroys half the town. [pictures & list of wounded soldiers]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/explosion-mobile-220x138.jpg)
![The Last Confederate Reunion in Alabama was held in September 1944 – all the men were in their 90s [see story & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Confederate-last-known-reunion-in-the-state-220x201.jpg)
