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In 1874, Birmingham, Alabama was a new city, only three years old. and when Thanksgiving drew near, the Birmingham Iron Age, published an article…
[In the later days of the Civil War, life was very difficult in Alabama for the average citizens as this story indicates.] WARNING! This…
Camp Sheridan While based at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama during World War I, the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, met and fell in…
Beginning with one employee, a mule, and a foot-powered bottling machine, Crawford Johnson Sr. purchased the exclusive franchise rights, in 1902, to bottle and…
Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his…
In 1937, the Van de Graaff family sold their land in Wilcox County, Alabama to the federal government, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA)…
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 01, Spring Issue 1943 – please remember that the vocabulary used is from a different…
This biography of Col. Jonathan Newton Smith is in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers Volume I COLONEL JONATHAN NEWTON SMITH…
[The Cahaba River has been an integral part of the growth of Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama.] Originally located on the west side In 1828,…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers included in volume 4 WALTER WASHINGTON PEARSON (1862 - aft. 1907)…
The first Birmingham Municipal Airport was located near Ensley. This is the story of how it started. In 1919, Major James A. Meissner, a…
Clarke County is a very early county in Alabama, existing since 1812. The Mathews Cabin was built in the 1830s by pioneers Josiah and Lucy…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Ortiz, De Soto's Interpreter Respected By The Indians Jean Ortiz was a mere…
Some old epitaphs reflect the hard life of women and childbirth in olden days 70 years a maiden 1 year a wife 2 months…
Indians were to be removed voluntarily By the terms of the treaty (Fort Jackson 1814 - Creek Indian War) the Indians were not to…
Some tips and links to help in Alabama family research Study birth certificates carefully There is a considerable amount of information on birth certificates. …
Ghost town of Blakeley, Alabama On April 9, 1865, at 5:30 p.m, following an eight-day siege, the Battle of Blakeley was fought near Mobile,…
CHILDERSBURG, ALABAMA Childersburg, Alabama is an incorporated town, and was a station at junction of Central of Georgia Railroad and the Southern Railway, in…
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…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Wellington Vandiver Chapter 3 Seventy-six years since Law came to the wilderness, and the county started merrily…
(There is an orb in the photograph. How can it be explained?) Third great grandfather was James Taylor Ross Ross Bridge, in Hoover, Alabama…
Geneva State Park dates back to prehistoric man Geneva is a very historic county in Alabama. Some archaeologists date the area back to prehistoric…
Steamboats Changed The Lives Of Early Settlers Difficult as it was to get cotton to market, it was more difficult to bring supplies back in…
In 1878, the South was still recuperating from the effects of the Civil War. Newspapers often shared advice on how to cope with the…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XIII Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
The Trail of Tears was the name given to the forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following…
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 03, Fall Issue 1946) CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT By …
The Fort Mims massacre was a battle that occurred on 30 August 1813 during the Creek War, when a force of Creek Indians, belonging…
ELDRED BURDER TEAGUE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1820-1902) Shelby, Montgomery, Greene, Sumter County, Macon, Jefferson Counties & Georgia Eldred Burder Teague, the son of John…
CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA The first settler of Calera was John R. Gamble from Ireland. He was a soldier of the American Revolution and…
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![PATRON + The first Birmingham Municipal Airport was located near Ensley, Alabama [see film & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Roberts-field-Birmingham-Public-Library-Archives-220x165.jpg)
![PATRON + America’s oldest continuously occupied city Childersburg, Alabama? [films & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Historic_Childersburg_Alabama_Bridge-220x149.jpg)
![PATRON + The trees along the Trail of Tears -why are they twisted into strange shapes? [films and pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/trail-of-tears3-220x165.jpg)
![PATRON + Original letter describing the tragic events at Fort Mims with [films & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ft._Mims_sign-220x165.jpg)
