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…
Milly of Montgomery This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Story continued below (From History of…
Some Of The Alabama Pioneers Captured And Ransomed By The Native Americans This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost…
This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com On Little River,…
Happy Birthday! GREEN UNDERWOOD (1799-1852) Dallas County, Alabama Green Underwood (Apr. 22, 1799 Spartanburg, SC – d. Oct. 6, 1852 Dallas Co., AL) was…
Happy Birthday! WADE HAMPTON ALLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1794 – 1851) Montgomery, Alabama. Wade Hampton Allen, planter and businessman, was born April 16, 1794,…
Happy Birthday! ISAAC M. JOHNSON (1790 - 1867) BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA Isaac M. Johnson was a farmer in Shelby County, Alabama.…
Little Tallassee, four miles above Wetumpka, was later on the farm owned by Howell Rose, and not far from where he built his house.…
JAMES M. ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1790- 1856) Marshall and Madison County, Alabama James M. Adams, of Marshall, was a young lawyer, and…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
HOWELL ROSE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1791 - 1866) North Carolina, Georgia, Coosa County, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George…
Happy Birthday! HORATIO GATES ALLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1792-1862) Dallas, Clarke and Marengo Counties, Alabama Horatio Gates Allen was born at Essex County, Mass…
Happy Birthday! GENERAL BARTLETT SMITH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1792-1843) Henry County, Alabama General Bartlett Smith was born January 23, 1792, and was one of…
The lands in Madison County were the first surveyed and sold in North Alabama. Prior to the sales in 1809 lands in and around…
The Buttahatchee River is a tributary to the Tombigbee River having its source in Winston and flowing to Marion County, then flowing southwestwardly, through…
THOMAS HAMILTON ABNEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1795-1870) Bibb County, Alabama Thomas Hamilton Abney was born in 1795, at Edgefield, S. C., and died January…
The story of the Thompson family and capture of Mrs.Caffrey in early Alabama is mentioned several times by early Alabama Historians. Here is another…
The first wave of migration to the Alabama area began in the Mississippi Territory around 1798. Around 4,500 people, including slaves, were living along…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I JOHN GALLAGHER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1796- 1839) Lawrence…
Alexander McGillivray1 A noted descendant of one of these traders having spent most of the winter in the settlement on Little River went to…
Clement Comer Clay came to Madison County from Tennessee. Though from a prominent family, Clay left Tennessee for Huntsville in 1811 with "enough cash…
