(Excerpts from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November, 1956 - 1957, presented as a Public Service, THE COMMERCIAL BANK) The following is…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
He only lived five more months The following excerpt is from a letter which has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 19,…
NOTE FROM Donna Causey - I googled Mannville, Elmore County and have been unable to find it in Elmore County, In 1926, a news…
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Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! Some words may be offensive to readers today. We have…
Lieut. Denny Weds Montana Belle (Excerpt transcribed from The Tuscaloosa News July 7, 1943) Tuscaloosa and University friends of Dr. and Mrs. George Denny…
Holiday events were prominent in Boaz in 1915-1916 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) SEMINARY NEWS One of the social…
INCORPORATION OF MONTGOMERY TOWN An Act to Incorporate the Town of Montgomery, in the County of Montgomery. Passed December 3, 1819. Sec. 1. Be…
(Transcribed from The Gazette-Appeal, Guin, Alabama, April 2, 1897) LOCAL NEWS FROM LITTLE ROCK Capt. W. T. Caudle, of Durango, Tex. was a welcomed…
The photographs below were made between 1890- 1910 and are probably of young women attending the Alabama Girls' Industrial School in Montevallo, Alabama which is…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
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On November 30, 1954, a historic event occurred in Alabama when a meteor appeared in the Alabama sky in the morning and was seen…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
An excerpt of a transcription of a history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly as written…
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(This story is even more interesting considering the fact that Tuscumbia had been congratulated in April 30, 1874 for being debt-free in the Birmingham…
BENJAMIN PINCKNEY WORTHINGTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 – 1884) Jefferson County, Alabama Benjamin Pinckney "Pink" Worthington was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on November 19,…
(Excerpts from HISTORY OF ROANOKE1 The Roanoke Leader, Roanoke, Alabama November 1956 - 1957, presented as a Public Service, THE COMMERCIAL BANK) The call…
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Below is an excerpt of a transcription of a history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly…
ALABAMA NOTES Made in 1883-1884 (During 1883 and 1884, Dr. Palmer, an investigator for the Bureau of American Ethnology, did archaeological research in Alabama…
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[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…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The roundup of the remaining Native-Americans began in Georgia on May 26, 1838; and continued for over…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! This may be offensive to readers today. We have transcribed…
These inscriptions and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV GREENWOOD CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS Before 1942 In memory of Captain…
NEEDHAM LEE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1770-1821) Shelby County, Alabama & Tennessee Needham H. Lee, Sr. was born November 14, 1770, in Prince Edward, Virginia.…
These coal miners from Birmingham and Walker County, Alabama had no idea that when they went to work one cold morning in February of…
