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PATRON-Personals from The Florence Times Oct. 6, 1905 – Is your ancestor mentioned?

Citizens of Florence mentioned in news abstracts From the Florence Times October 6, 1905 – Lauderdale County, Alabama Chief of police Anderson has been…

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PATRON + The Decatur Daily is one of only two family-owned daily newspapers remaining in Alabama that is over 100 years old.

The Decatur Daily is one of only two family-owned daily newspapers remaining in Alabama that is over 100 years old. The Anniston Star is…

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PATRON + Fountain Heights [film, photographs] – a historic connection to Birmingham’s past – can it be saved?

Fountain Heights is one of Birmingham's historic neighborhoods, and was home to some of Birmingham's most prominent and wealthy business leaders, but today the…

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PATRON + Silverhill, Baldwin County, Alabama – immigrants from throughout the World settled in this small community

Around the turn of the century, immigrants from many regions of the United States and from other countries began populating Baldwin County: Italians settled…

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PATRON + One-room schoolhouses were popular in early Alabama as these photographs indicate

Education was important to early pioneers of Alabama. One-room schoolhouses, log houses in communities, private homes, schoolhouses on large plantations, private academies, and mission schools…

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PATRON + Did you know six years before the Wright Bros. famous flight a manned glider flew 15 feet over Mobile Bay beach in Alabama?

Glider flew in 1893 over Mobile Bay beach The land around Brookley field in Mobile, Alabama has played a part in United States aviation…