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TOD ROBINSON, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812-1870) Judge in California Tod Robinson, lawyer, judge, and legislator, was born on March 1, 1812, in…
Bear, Panther, And Wolf Were Common Once Alabama became a territory, in the words of Pickett, "the flood-gates of Virginia, the two Carolinas, Tennessee,…
This is a cute story that many who lived on a farm can relate to. Bitterweed Butter by Dorothy Graham Gast When I was…
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Marble has been used as a building material for centuries, but sometimes it gets stained. This is how our ancestors dealt with stain removal…
North Carolina honored him as Songwriter of the Year in 2005 [In September 2005, 84-year old Curtis L. Stewart, native Alabamian, traveled to North…
PAINT ROCK VALLEY, ALABAMA PIONEERS (posted to public stories Ancestry.com by genealogygeek) Flanked by steep mountains and threaded by a meandering river, Paint Rock Valley…
REV. HENRY BYNUM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1820 – ca. 1896) Rev. Henry Bynum, of Leighton, Ala., was born in Baltimore, Md., January 1820. In 1851, in…
In the 1930s and 1940s, bus travel was the common way to travel to school, around town and to other parts of the country.…
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HOWELL ROSE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1791 - 1866) North Carolina, Georgia, Coosa County, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George…
Read this story and more in: ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) When Alabama was first settled by the French, they…
Mahan boys and comrades (Written in 1910) The three Mahan boys and their comrades, following the good fight at New Orleans, split up into…
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…
The area which makes up Bullock County, Alabama belonged to the Creek Indians until the treaty of Fort Jackson ceded the western half of…
"Lurleen Wallace was inaugurated as Alabama's first female governor--and only the third nationwide--as an estimated 150,000 look on. Wallace succeeded her husband George C. Wallace, who…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER EIGHT by By HON. E. A. POWELL (Written before 1886) At the time I first went to Fayette the…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! (Transcribed from THE SHELBY NEWS, Calera, Alabama, January 16, 1890) CLANTON Mrs. W. H. Phillips left…
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The Last Panther In Alabama (Written exactly as told) from Gibbons Family News Letter submitted by Dorothy Clark Way back, sometime around 1902 -1908,…
Drawing shows a military camp at the base of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (Excerpt from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1 The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November 1956-1957,…
(This article was prepared by the author, Thomas P. Clinton in 1916, followed by a number of other historical studies of the section treated.…
(Transcribed from Short Sketches of Jackson County, W. P. A. story from Alabama Department of Archives and History,) THE HUGHES FAMILY by Jennie Sue…
WILLIAM COOPER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY 1802-1887 Colbert County, Alabama William Cooper was a lawyer in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama. He was born January 11,…
Scald milk and stir in enough cornmeal to make a batter, add salt. (Do this about 3 o'clock in the afternoon in winter and…
Traditionally, football has always been considered a boy's sport, but a young girl at Escambia High in Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama challenged this practice…
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