The film below, entitled, Steel in the Magic City by Spark Media includes historic images of 1930s Birmingham, and is an Alabama Pioneers exclusive. Steel in…
Tuscaloosa was not united (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
Days Gone By in Alabama by Peggy Sue Harmon In reading Jean Butterworth’s article on her Christmas family tradition, my memories were stirred (even…
THE BIG GULLY AND THE RAVINE (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who…
UNION CHURCH NEWS (Transcribed from The Grand Bay News, Grand Bay, Alabama, October 1, 1915) Fred Freeland is suffering an attack of marelia (malaria?).…
MATRIMONIAL MUSSES AT MOBILE A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow. (Transcribed from The Montgomery Advertiser June 21, 1890) Mr. Ulmer and Mrs.…
GRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF W. A. SMITH Coosa River News”, Centre, Alabama, Friday August 21, 1908: Volume 31, #24 Rome Tribune” Borden…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIV 1 Henry C. Sanford Cherokee County A son of Hezekiah P. and Priscilla…
(Transcribed and unedited excerpt from a story that was written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Susan Russell. The Cooper coffin and the strange…
(Transcribed from The Grand Bay News, Grand Bay, Alabama, October 1, 1915) THEODORE NOTES (By P. W. F.) Theodore, Ala., Sept. 28 (Special Correspondence)…
DAVID MARSHALL SCOTT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (December 23, 1847 - Tuscaloosa and Dallas County, Alabama David Marshall Scott, merchant and postmaster, was born December…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIV - XV The Circuit Courts, in the beginning of the Judicial history…
It Happened at 4:01 P.M. (Transcription from a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
(Personals from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) GIRARD COUNCIL HELD MEETING And Voted to Allow Stock to Continue Running at Large Girard…
Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you are having a great one! This video should bring back memories -enjoy! Check out our latest…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I and Alabama Pioneer Tod Robinson (1776-1838) Biography, Genealogy with Notes …
During the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-1920 the death toll worldwide reached 20 million including 548,000 Americans in 10 months. Compared to 20 million…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXI (Continued) J. T. MAY J. T. MAY was a Methodist preacher who…
IRVINGTON NEWS AND NOTES GATHERED BY CORRESPONDENTS (Transcribed from The Grand Bay News, Grand Bay, Alabama, October 1, 1915) Events Of The Past Few…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI WILLIAM ANTHONY ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1837-1914) Mobile, Alabama…
While browsing the Alabama State Archives, I have frequently run across some really interesting old photographs of Alabamians with absolutely no information about them.…
BASIL MANLY ALLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1858-1924) Jefferson County, Alabama Basil Manly Allen was born December 20, 1858, in Carolina County, Virginia, the son…
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1840 – 1935), or Cudjo Lewis, was the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VIII INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA After De Soto had left his trail of…
W. P. Wallace wrote a series of articles in The Centreville Press about Bibb County, Alabama's history. This one of his transcribed articles transcribed…
NOTES FOUND ON THE 1850 CENSUS OF PERRY COUNTY, ALABAMA J. Hugh LeBaron 100 South Rosebud Lane Starkville, MS 39759 [email protected] 1 JOHN LOCKHART…
(Many people in Alabama changed their views on slavery as this story reveals)The Alabama County of Calhoun was created by the legislature December 18,…
The following Business Advertisements were in a Catalog published in 1888 entitled, Florence, Lauderdale County and North Alabama by Leftwich bros. and Curtis, Florence,…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) Hopkins Pratt Biography and Genealogy (1791 -…
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Greensboro.1 (Published in 1908) The earliest records of this church were lost, and have never been…
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