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This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3) First Edition Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron/Patreon and unlock even…
Today, June 7th, Vulcan, the largest cast iron statue in the world located in Birmingham, Alabama, is having a birthday. He is the centerpiece of…
Choccolocco Valley, Alabama, settled over 2500 years ago by Native Americans, has lost many historic sites including the covered bridge and Native American mound…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) Part III HOME INDUSTRIES, SPINNING AND WEAVING Within a…
GLIMPSES FROM NORMANDY by Jean Butterworth This past June 6, 2009 commemorated the 65th Anniversary of D-Day and the Invasion at Normandy. Many American…
From the Montgomery Mail, Nov. 24, 1858. LETTER FROM J. K. KLINCK, OF TENNESSEE. Eds. Mail: Having lately read some sketches of the Creek…
HISTORY OF THE AUBURN BAPTIST CHURCH By Mary Reese Frazer (Transcribed from a pamphlet written in 1926) In 1838, this part of the State…
The Little Boy Cook by Joe Baxter Davis In the 1940's we lived in Birmingham. Daddy worked as an auto body man and painter,…
Tips all the way from Africa in 1887. SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE STORY (Excerpt transcribed from The South Alabamian, Jackson, Clarke County, Alabama, October…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part I Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 TUSCUMBIA A…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, William P. Burke BIGGEST RABBIT RAISING INDUSTRY Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama written ca.…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 All…
(Autauga was created before Alabama became a state. This story tells the names of many of the early settlers with links to their biographies.)…
Excerpt from The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama – Their Leaders and Their Work copyright 1896 – In this transcribed excerpt, a…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The earliest…
(Excerpts transcribed from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern Railroad REACH EVERY PRINCIPAL CITY AND PORT…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers included in volume 4 NATHAN LOBMAN (1851- 1915) BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY…
One of the largest artesian well in the world was reported to be on the "Goodrum Place", a plantation that was owned by the…
The Greensboro Dramatic Association1 (This transcribed article was published in 1908) Nearly forty years ago—to be exact, in 1869—there existed in Greensboro an organization known as “The…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) Miss Pauline White visited Selma the past week.…
(Transcribed extracts from The Bangor Broad-Axe, Bangor, Blount County, Alabama, June 2, 1860) LAW NOTICE! All persons who are indebted to me for legal…
(Excerpts transcribed from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) (Photograph of Engine of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad in front of a…
Land sales listed in The Bangor Broad-Axe, Bangor, Blount County, Alabama, June 2, 1876 (Transcribed extracts from The Bangor Broad-Axe, Bangor, Blount County, Alabama,…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I GEORGE FOOTE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1784-1825) MADISON and LIMESTONE…
PATRON - First permanent settlement in Conecuh County, Alabama identified Conecuh County Early Days by Rev. B. F. Riley In the latter part of…
Did you know that the low places in Greensboro, Alabama were from extensive reed brakes where cattle died? Before white settlers moved into the…
The composer of the Star-Spangled Banner was sent to Alabama in 1833 to solve a serious problem with Indians. (This was transcribed by the…
PATRON - Jackson County, Alabama boundaries have changed three times. From HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed…
AUTHOR SUNDAY - Did his Grandma see a Mermaid in Alabama? Cute story..... My Grandmother by Dennis W Smith My grandmother was born Malissy…
On July 1-3, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought during the Civil War. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the…
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