(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband, was an early pioneer of Alabama. In…
Patron+ Edwin D. King, founder of Howard College, kept a small country tavern on side of the road Patron+ Member Story THE HISTORY OF…
Happy Birthday! EDMUND ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1816-1885) Dallas County, Alabama Edmund Anderson was a Presbyterian minister. He was born on Feb. 20, 1816,…
Happy Birthday! DR. JOSEPH RILEY SMITH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1905) Jefferson County, Alabama Dr. Joseph Riley Smith, Sr., of Elyton, Alabama, was born Feb.…
Relationship with the Indians The relations of the settlers of Cherokee County with the Cherokees in the country were very friendly. Many of the…
Happy Birthday! JOSEPH GLOVER BALDWIN GENEALOGY and BIOGRAPHY (1815 – 1864) Sumter County, Alabama Joseph Baldwin was a Virginian, born January 21, 1815 in…
Happy Birthday! ANDREW BARNWELL MILEY, SR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1896) Covington County, Alabama Andrew Barnwell Miley was born January 20, 1818, in Barnwell, Barnwell…
Ghost town of Blakeley, Alabama On April 9, 1865, at 5:30 p.m, following an eight-day siege, the Battle of Blakeley was fought near Mobile,…
Clarke County is a very early county in Alabama, existing since 1812. The Mathews Cabin was built in the 1830s by pioneers Josiah and Lucy…
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Excerpts from the History of Coosa County, Alabama Chapter One By Rev. George E. Brewer (transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No.…
Happy Birthday! JAMES ROBERT POWELL "DUKE OF BIRMINGHAM" BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 -1883) by John Witherspoon DuBose The year 1818, before Alabama had been…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM SWEARINGEN MUDD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1816 – 1884) Jefferson County, Alabama William Swearingen Mudd was a lawyer, legislator, and circuit judge…
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Happy Birthday! BENJAMIN PINCKNEY WORTHINGTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 – 1884) Jefferson County, Alabama Benjamin Pinckney "Pink" Worthington was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on…
(Alabama's Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at…
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Have you ever noticed this marker near Wetumpka, Alabama? It was the originally the seat of justice for Montgomery County, Alabama. The County seat…
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO: Gov. William Wyatt Bibb wrote this message to the Legislature of the Alabama Territory. Scroll down for this Patron+ member…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (Richard Breckenridge wrote a diary when he made a trip to survey his future home site in Alabama in 1816. Excerpts from…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HENLEY GRAHAM SNEAD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814-1906) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Captain Henley Graham Snead was born October 27, 1814, Richmond County, North…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
[This transcription is from a book written ca. 1870 and includes many places of "Indian towns in Coosa County" and names of people who…
Patron+ member story - Click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. CONECUH COUNTY, ALABAMA EARLY DIFFICULTIES By Benjamin Franklin Riley…
Indians were to be removed voluntarily By the terms of the treaty (Fort Jackson 1814 - Creek Indian War) the Indians were not to…
Patron Member story - November 1819 Term of County of Cahawba Minutes This was published in 1st edition of THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL (It has…
Patron Member story This was published in 1st edition of THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL (It has been copied as it was written in THE CAHAWBA…
Steamboats Changed The Lives Of Early Settlers Difficult as it was to get cotton to market, it was more difficult to bring supplies back in…
General Sam Dale gives an eyewitness account of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh's visit to Alabama in 1811 Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If…
Anne Newport Royall - Traveling to Huntsville on horseback in 1817 was not without humor as this letter reports Anne Royall (June 11, 1769…
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