The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story In the years 1935-1941 in the…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
These coal miners from Birmingham and Walker County, Alabama had no idea that when they went to work one cold morning in February of…
A cemetery is a strange place to find a miniature red-brick house complete with windows, fireplace, front porch with a mailbox. There is such…
From 1946 Avondale Sun (October – December BPonline) Gingerbread Lollipops 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 1-2 teaspoon…
Scroll down to read story SINGING SCHOOLS (Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) author from Pike County, Alabama) Written by…
I had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing an extraordinary lady who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Ramsey High School, and went on to…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell ca. 1938) Continued below Haunted Houses Near Tuscumbia written ca. 1938 by…
Sturdivant Hall By Joe McKnight As a pre-teen growing up in Selma, AL., I once broke into Sturdivant Hall, an ante-bellem mansion which these…
(Continued from Part I) An inspiring unedited true story from the author of History of Eufaula, published in 1930 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . .…
[NOTE: This old film is long but a true historic treasure that will bring tears to your eyes. It will make you proud to…
We found this article posted in the Times Daily, September 12, 1891, Florence, Alabama. Alabama Polytechnic Institute or A & M. College's later became…
Life History of Mrs. Minnie Richards SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Eufaula, Alabama Women Executive, Telephone…
Controversial calls reveal difficulties before instant replay in football Transcribed from The Tuscaloosa News -November 16, 1937 We look upon the Crimson Tide with…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI- Scroll to bottom to see the Table of Contents…
I have heard my grandfather(Big Daddy) Sidney Bearden b.1918 say they were so poor growing up" that they had cracks in the floors and…
The news in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 30, 1930 – included the following stories. SEARLES MAN DIES OF KNIFE WOUND IN HEART Dave Hudson,…
Holtville High School, Alabama A school in the National & International spotlight (Continued below) Holtville is 27 miles northwest of Montgomery, Alabama and is…
Rotten Potatoes by Johnny Ponder My Momma said that she spent her entire childhood eating rotten potatoes. I’m not kidding. In East Texas everybody…
These newspaper abstracts and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Below are some Genealogy Queries published in The…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled and grammar errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Annie L. Bowman, Escambia County,…
This is probably one of the earliest videos of Auburn University. The famous Toomer's Corner, at the intersection of College Street and Magnolia Avenue,…
Carbon Hill is located in the northwestern part of Walker County, Alabama about 15 miles west of Jasper. It was settled in 1886 and…
Rammed earth houses in Gardendale are still standing even though they were built nearly 80 years ago! Rammed Earth house 1937 photographed by Arthur…
We ran across this amazing old film and could not find out more about it. The pilot's name appears to be Blaine and it…
The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…
In 1937, the Van de Graaff family sold their land in Wilcox County, Alabama to the federal government, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA)…
In 1937, the United States Government Resettlement Program purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in Wilcox County, Alabama and divided the land, then…
Geneva State Park dates back to prehistoric man Geneva is a very historic county in Alabama. Some archaeologists date the area back to prehistoric…
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