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Much of the wealth and refinement of early days in Alabama could be found in Huntsville and Madison County. Few parts of the state equal Huntsville…
ALFRED ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1800-1849) Greene and Lowndes Counties, Alabama Alfred Anderson was born in Rockville, Maryland, September 2, 1800, and died…
COLONEL ALEXANDER HAMILTON WOOD 1796-1860 Worshipful Master Florence Lodge, A.F.& A. M. 1822, Florence, Alabama BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY SKETCH BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER MRS. Elizabeth…
Excerpt transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 03, Fall Issue EARLY HISTORY OF AUBURN By Mrs. Mary Reese Frazer (Through the…
In 2007, Hackleburg was named the “Best Small Town in America” by Country Music Television and it is probably for good reason. The citizens…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Excerpt from REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Sketch of the Methodist Church, Perote, Alabama 1839-1908 by Mrs.…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Photographs of the historic Franklin King Beck home in 1936, 1937 and today Alex Bush, Photographer, January 7, 1937 FRONT (SOUTH) - Franklin King…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Beautiful excerpt from Journal of seventh governor of Alabama reveals their courtship in early 1800s 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh…
Cusseta Treaty opened land East of the Coosa In 1819, Alabama had been admitted as one of the States of the Federal Union. That…
Third part of a transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA By…
The troops from Tennessee that invaded the Creeks in 1812, marched through Madison County, on their way to way to Baird's Bluff Depositi and made…
A second part of the transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA…
This tips date back to the early 1800s in America. Some of them may not be safe. Artificial Mahogany1 The following method of giving…
A. B. DAWSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1800-aft. 1840) Georgia, Coosa County, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans…
HOLY GROUND CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE The principal campaign and engagement between the Creeks and the whites in South Alabama, continuing for several weeks and…
(The following has been transcribed from Chapter Two of Jefferson County and Birmingham History 1887 by Teeple & Smith Publishers) JEFFERSON COUNTY AS IT WAS…
Elyton in Jefferson County, Alabama was the location of many early settlers of Jefferson County. This story reveals some of the earliest residents. (Please note…
PATRON + Thanks to the untiring efforts of these men the telegraph and telephone finally came to Greensboro, Alabama Communication with the outside world…
Limestone County, Alabama land was claimed by both the Chickasaws and Cherokees EARLY LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMA The territory embraced in Limestone County was at…
A number of National Register of Historic Places listed plantations are located a few miles from Faunsdale in Marengo County, Alabama. Faunsdale Plantation Faunsdale Plantation…
EARLY NORTHERN ALABAMA (while part of the Mississippi Territory) From Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians Excerpt was written by Reuben Davis, 1889 “The life…
The History and Legend of Chief Chinnabee November 20, 1936 During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around…
Continued from Part III (Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard…
Continued from Part II (Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard…
NEWSPAPERS IN EARLY GREENSBORO, ALABAMA1 (Story Published in 1908) The Halcyon As early as 1824, and presumably earlier, there was a newspaper published in…
EARLY LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA Lowndes County was inhabited by the Alibamo Indians, whose chief town was Ikanatchaka, or Holy Ground. It was at that…
DIVISION OF GREENSBORO IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE1 A few years prior to 1830, Greensborough was divided into three imaginary wards, known…
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