A grist mill in pioneer days was the place to hear all the news so ALABAMA GRIST MILL seemed to be the perfect name…
The rich lands in the Tennessee Valley were prized by speculators long before its actual settlement. When America's independence from England was declared, and…
This is a recipe from an vintage 1890s book. for cleaning black silk dresses. I haven't tried this methods. If you attempt it, proceed…
SAND MOUNTAIN MEMORIES How we got there by Raymond Elliott My father did not always own a car during my childhood. Then there…
Written November 4, 1938 by Ila B. Prine WPA Federal Writers' Project Mobile, Alabama A STORY OF A FISHERMANS LIFE Standing under a china…
Silverplate is always a time-consuming task and it wasn't any different for our ancestors. This is a way they usually had success in the…
TO TUSCALOOSA AND BEYOND: A UNION CAVALRY RAIDER IN ALABAMA, MARCH-APRIL 1865 Edited by Edward G. Longacre (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Have you ever heard of the Town of Marathon in Lawrence County, Alabama? It was once a prominent town in Alabama Territorial days and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) At the beginning of the American Revolution and the settlement of whites in…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE RECIPE POACHED EGGS 1886 RECIPE Nearly fill frying pan with boiling water; add a little salt and vinegar. Bread eggs…
It is amazing what can be found at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Here are some Baldwin Junior High cheerleader pictures from…
Madison County, Alabama settlers believed in education from its earliest days SOME SETTLERS OF EARLY MADISON COUNTY by Thomas Jones Taylor i (1829-1894) I…
TUSKEGEE LAID OFF-NEW MAIL ROUTE-EARLY SETTLERS, AC. AC. Early stories of Macon County The East-half of section 30, township 14, range 24 was conveyed…
Winston County, Alabama's opposition to the Confederacy is briefly mentioned in the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Paper Moon: A Novel (formerly Addie Pray) Tap…
Magnolia Springs, a small town along the Gulf Coast of Alabama on the Magnolia River, has a unique United States mail delivery system that…
A cemetery is a strange place to find a miniature red-brick house complete with windows, fireplace, front porch with a mailbox. There is such…
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Richard Pearson Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! This may be offensive to readers today. We have transcribed…
(Transcribed from the Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi – September 10, 1818) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS, by an act of…
Barbour County is well-known for its pecan trees and it is probable that the first pecan grove in Alabama was planted about 1836-7 in…
Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly…
Prior to the 1880s many physicians believed that diseases such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death were caused by a miasma or a…
A WAR TIME FOUNDRY A Story of a Confederate Foundry at the present Anniston By Kate Quintard Noble Roberts1 My Grandfather, James Noble, left…
Elyton Land Company was once in a building at 20th and Morris Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama In the year 1870 several gentlemen, most of…
YELLOW FEVER (Transcribed from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen) Alabama was first visited by this…
EARLY HISTORY OF TUSKEGEE1 Messrs. Darby and Price, of Tuskegee, the proprietors of Darby's Prophylactic Fluid, have published a small pamphlet, or business circular…
AN INDUSTRIAL PIONEER JAMES MITCHELL (1866-1920) by WILLIAM E. MITCHELL "Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, employees of the Alabama Power Company, many of you…
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING A NEWSPAPER, TO BE ENTITLED THE MONTGOMERY REPUBLICAN Aware, that my new and difficult employment, will subject me to…
Moundville Archaeological Park - a true treasure in Alabama Few sections in the Southern States can equal the wealth of evidence of Native American…
AN ACCOUNT OF THE OCCUPATION OF FORT HUDSON, LA By Crawford M. Jackson1 It was in the month of May, 1863, on the 24th…
