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Established by members of the Methodist Church East Alabama Male College was an educational institution of high grade, established by members of the Methodist…
I wonder what happened that caused this ban of toy pistols on Christmas Day? TOY PISTOLS WERE BANNED ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA AN ORDINANCE…
Shooting Mistletoe by Shannon Hollon For many Christmas Eve's the Uncles, Aunts and Cousins would gather from miles around at my grandparents house(Big Mama…
Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was by some accounts the first professional woman journalist in the United States. When her…
The Day I was Born by Virginia Faye Floyd Peiffer My mom told me about the day I was born. I will never forget.…
Have you put up a Christmas Tree? Christmas trees appeared in Germany about 1600 and a few might have been found among German settlers…
JUST LIKE MINE By Joyce Ray Wheeler We were so young in 1953 when my husband became a mathematics professor at Howard College…
Take two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, half a pint of fresh cider, nutmeg, one teaspoonful of salaratua or volatile salts, and…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA By HON. E. A. POWELL CHAPTER I To one who has spent more than half a century, as it…
Red Velvet Cake Tradition by Jean Butterworth Many years ago I started making a red velvet cake for my family, especially for my son…
MAJOR CAMPBELL WALLACE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1806-1895) GEORGIA Major Campbell Wallace was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on December 7, 1806 to Jesse and…
JAMES ROBERT POWELL "DUKE OF BIRMINGHAM" BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 -1883) by John Witherspoon DuBose The year 1818, before Alabama had been admitted into…
On July 10, 1820, Alabama’s first governor, William Wyatt Bibb, died as a result of injuries received in a riding accident on his plantation.…
Decorating the Tree by Inez McCollum Most of you are in the process of decorating your Christmas Tree. My late husband would get so…
Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his…
A Traumatic and Memorable Christmas by Joe McKnight One Christmas in my early childhood stands out as both traumatic and memorable. We lived at…
EARLY HISTORY OF CLEBURNE COUNTY, ALABAMA (Excerpt transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 1921) Cleburne County was created by the…
Long involved in state and national efforts to reform child labor laws, Loraine Bedsole (Bush) Tunstall was largely responsible for the establishment of the…
Pass Along Shrubbery - They remind me of old friends Around my yard, there are several shrubs that were passed along to me by…
Christmas Surprise by Clifford Dobyns I was five years old in 1937 and unknown to me was that my parents had decided to get…
CHRISTMAS APRONS by Dorothy Graham Gast As the holiday season approached in 1955 my less than a year old daughter and I lived with…
Some interesting people from old Perote, Bullock County, Alabama REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi (This transcribed excerpt…
Prayer Warriors by Clifford Dobbyns The dictionary says that prayer is an approach to deity in word or thought: an urgent request. It defines…
John G. Bamberg (1760-1801) was born Jun 1760 in Eastern, Pennsylvania, USA or Bavaria and died 1801 in Lexington, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. He…
In every book I have read about the Civil War, the authors referred to the 'Rebel Yell' heard before battle and I have always…
Borden Springs, east of Piedmont, Alabama was part of Calhoun County until 1866, when it became part of Cleburne County, Alabama. The area is…
In a small southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature…
The Good Ole Days of 1921 when.... Lime Cola was made in Montgomery, Alabama in 1921 Phone calls were charged according to distance Touring…
Note: This story has been reported in newspapers since the 1930s, and is all over the internet including the History.com but the Alabama Department of…
GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN A DEMOCRACY by Houston Cole Tuscaloosa News December 1, 1939 It might be said that good citizenship in a democracy, generally…
![PARTON +Did you know that Auburn University [old photographs] was almost located in Greensboro, Alabama?](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Auburn-Ala.-U.D.C.-Unveiling-Memorial-Tablet-on-Historic-Scene-ca.-1890.jpg)
![PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS: [Old Christmas tree prints] and historic facts about Christmas celebrations](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Christmas-tree-Uncle-Sam-and-phillipines-220x337.jpg)
![PATRON + Amazing [vintage film] of real Confederate vets giving the Rebel Yell in Washington D. C.](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/civil-war-veterans-the-rebel-yell-388-220x86.jpg)
![PATRON + Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday [see parade pictures from the 1950s in Alabama]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Float_in_the_Christmas_parade_in_downtown_Montgomery_Alabama_on_Bainbridge_Street_in_front_of_the_Capitol-220x171.jpg)
