Continued from Part III (This has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical QuarterlyThe Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Nos. 03 & 04, Fall and…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! ANDREW ALFRED DEXTER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1809 - 1854) Montgomery,…
The Alabama Cherokee Sequoyah invented the Cherokee alphabet and after 1829, the Cherokee people printed a weekly paper. HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY,…
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THE BUFORD EXPEDITION TO KANSASi By Walter Lynwood Fleming, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Part IV June 26, Buford left the Territory on…
THE BUFORD EXPEDITION TO KANSASi By Walter Lynwood Fleming, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Part III By May 7th the colonists had scattered…
Warning: This excerpt includes some vocabulary and harsh words that would not be used today. Please remember the times in which it was written.…
There were several plank roads in Alabama before the advent of the railroad. They have disappeared now. Plank roads were short-lived in Alabama A…
From Birmingham Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama May 14, 1874 Duval and Roberts Editors WHY SHAD APPEARED IN ALABAMA RIVERS Mr. William Gesner, of Birmingham,…
Old Southern University Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama Old Southern University was built in 1857 by Mullins and Hall of Selma, Alabama. It was owned…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer BENJAMIN WILSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1773-1852) SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA After…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer COL. JOSEPH HAYES ACKLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1850-1938) Madison County,…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer DR. MILTON LE GRAND WOOD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1855-1924) Montgomery, Alabama …
According to the article below published in 1908, three men in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama volunteered to be climate observers and weather recorders for…
During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
Ads provide family research clues - Transcribed advertisements are from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama, October 5, 1853 – Note: This paper is very…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER FIVE by By HON. E. A. POWELL John C. Kirkland was a farmer of strong native sense, and…
A death and List of Letters remaining in the P. O. at Autaugaville on Tuesday, October 4, 1853 (Transcribed from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama)…
A LETTER FROM AUBURN Correspondence of the Republican Written 1859 Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02, Summer Issue 1956. Mr.…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
PEYTON G. BOWMAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854 – 1916) Jefferson County, Alabama Peyton G. Bowman was an attorney at law in Birmingham, Alabama. He…
Patron – Personal and local news from around Jones Valley and Elyton April 1, 1854 (Excerpt Transcribed from The Jones Valley Times (Elyton, Alabama)…
"The Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company dates back to 1836, the year the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance was established." The company…
[This historical letter tells the story of the yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama in 1853 as they tried to determine how it started.…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jan 3, 1855) DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESSES M. BRAUNE, Daguerreotype Artist, has lately arrived in Carrollton…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) MASONIC CELEBRATION CARROLLTON LODGE NO. 214, celebrated the 27th of December…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! 1851 ALABAMA DEATH NOTICES FROM SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER (These records were recorded in Marion and Perry…
This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV SOME ALABAMA MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM 1850 SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER…
Happy Birthday! THOMAS CHALMERS McCorvey BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1852 - 1932) Monroe and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Colonel T. C. McCorvey was born in Monroe…
The following article is an excerpt from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 that describes some historic sites and ghost…
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