I imagine the $752 price was quite expensive in 1918 dollars but it sounds great today. I wonder what happened to these car dealerships.…
The National Holiday which is known today as Veterans Day was called Armistice Day before 1954. The change in the name came about due…
THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed…
LOCAL NEWS OF PEOPLE IN ALBERTVILLE October 23, 1919 Albertville is a city in Marshall County, Alabama. It was inhabited by the Cherokees until…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI- Scroll to bottom to see the Table of Contents…
One hundred years ago, on March 24, 1916, Julia Strudwick Tutwiler passed away in Birmingham, Alabama. Julia Strudwick Tutwiler Education and Reform Tutwiler was a…
Mexican Revolution In 1910, a revolution in Mexico began. All across Mexico, volunteers aligned with different factions, and Pancho Villa aligned with Francisco I.…
[Here's an interesting news article from 1910 pleading for the football rivalry between Alabama and Auburn to continue in Birmingham after being suspended.] Alabama…
Eufaula, phoenix like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Transcribed from The Clayton Record…
More old photographs discovered of Confederate veterans. These have been identified. Sign up for our Daily Email of recent posts at the bottom of this…
New from Tuscaloosa News August 27, 1911 ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY WILL SHOW INCREASE J. C. Persons, bursar-registrar of the University of Alabama returned…
Some deaths that were reported in Alabama on March 24, 1817 (Transcribed from the Tuscaloosa News March 24, 1817) The Tuscaloosa News March 24,…
Early film of Montgomery in 1914 was discovered in the Alabama State Treasurer's vault. Thankfully, it was turned over to the Alabama Department of Archives and…
The beautiful plantation mansions of Glennville, Alabama have a connection with Auburn University. Glennville was named for Rev. James E. Glenn who came to…
SAM DALEY'S SCHOOL Have you ever heard of Sam Daley's school in Tuscaloosa? I found two articles about it in a 1910 paper and…
Patron+ member story The Mary Frances last trip down the Warrior ended in disaster (Transcription from a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
THE MONTGOMERY MOTOR CORPS The Montgomery motor corps was a department of the National League for Woman's Service, organized by Mrs. William J. Hannah,…
While doing some research on something else, as often happens, I discovered an interesting article about Alabama from The Toronto Sunday World November 5,…
Avondale was a company town built east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887. The city was…
WWI need for nitrates During 1916 as the United States was drawing closer to involvement in the war in Europe, it became apparent to…
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Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
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