TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUMS ARE NO MORE! by JEAN BUTTERWORTH It was announced in the Birmingham News that as of June 1, 2011 that the Public…
Milly of Montgomery This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and ALABAMA…
Read about this sad period of American history in the three-book historical series, Tapestry of Love. Inspired by true events, these three novels take you back…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Jackson Protects Friendly Creeks General Jackson continued to wait for supplies while camped at Fort Strother.…
(Transcribed from The Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama, January 31, 1856) HYMENEAL Married, on the 1st of December, 1855, by J. S. Coate,…
The following is an Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation - (Excerpt continued below) The Breaking Point The hunting grounds of the Creeks once stretched…
Office Rules and Regulations By Geiger, 1872 Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and showcases. Each day fill lamps,…
Bibb County, Alabama was settled around the time that Alabama became a state. The biographies in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol.…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband…
(Transcribed and unedited story found in other stories from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) in a Sumter County, Alabama folder of ex-slave stories. It…
Archaeologists believe that humans have lived in Geneva County, Alabama for at least 13,000 years, perhaps much longer. During the coldest periods of the…
(Transcribed from The Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama, January 31, 1856) MASONIC RESOLUTION The following resolution was passed by the Grand Lodge of…
Have you ever heard or read about Milly, who was alone in the wilderness of Montgomery, Alabama in 1792? Many streets in Montgomery are…
Some useful Dietetic Recipes from the 1883 Ladies Guide in Health and Disease (I wonder how they taste) OATMEAL BREAKFAST CAKE– Saturate oatmeal of…
Don't waste time researching genealogy others have completed. This book is filled with genealogy research, notes and sources of information on Alexander Grancer Cobb's…
Indian Trails and Early Roads written in 1900 by Peter J. Hamilton Scroll down to read story (Unedited Transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical…
The following lines are from a rough headboard at a pass in the Rocky Mountains known as the Devils Gate. Here lies the body…
The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. 2 come from many sources. A good deal of the information comes…
These photographs of young cotton mill workers taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in November and December 1913 are haunting. Merrimack mill was located in Huntsville,…
(This article has been exactly transcribed (with misspelled and grammar mistakes) from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA that was printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886)…
(This article has been precisely transcribed (with spelling and grammar mistakes) from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA which was printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12,…
(Transcribed from The Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama, January 31, 1856) LAND FOR SALE The undersigned, as Administrator of the Estate of R.…
Isaac Abercrombie was a pioneer of Perry County, Alabama (born 1748 Scotland – died 1825 Alabama) This book is a compilation of six generations…
NOTE: This anecdote about storms in Alabama was written in March 1880. Col. E. A. Powell, of Tuscaloosa, read by request, a very entertaining…
The University of the State of Alabama was opened on April 18, 1831, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the state's capital at the time, and many…
When pioneers moved to new locations, they often traveled in groups and intermarried with those they traveled with on their journey. This was the…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI DIXON HALL REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (b. 1755 VA. d.…
This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Exploration, Lost and Forgotten Stories by Donna R. Causey and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume I…
To say that there was suffering for water goes without saying... MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part V By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions…
Battelle is now a privately owned ghost town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States, but on "Thursday evening, November 25th, 1915, Battelle had on…
