Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! MORGAN HOWARD SUBMITTED BY JACQUE OTTS (1821 NC-1850…
The Ghosts of Dauphin Island When French explorers arrived in Mobile Bay and found sun-bleached bones stacked on an island, they didn't realize that…
(This story was written in 1916. Mr. Clinton was a contributor to the old Alabama Historical Society, reprinted in The Alabama Historical Quarterly 1930) EARLY HISTORY…
Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of the first Mardi Gras in America. [See the story: Have you ever heard of Massacre Island in Mobile,…
The Bountiful Bearden's... A family's journey in the American South by Shannon Hollon Our first Bearden in America was Jacob Bearden b.1660 in England…
In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the…
More details of this massacre can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation KIMBALL/KIMBELL-JAMES MASSACRE in Clarke County, Alabama A brutal massacre occurred September 1,…
DORANTON PATTON NEWTON LANGSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812 – 1873) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Doranton Patton Langston was born during 1812 in Tennessee, the fourth…
Originally, I’m from Tuscaloosa by Jean Butterworth Early Tuscaloosa Memories 1935-1942 How many times in conversation with strangers or friends do I say, “Originally…
Patron+ member story - If the story is not visible below, click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. The…
Happy Birthday! BENJAMIN ALLSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY' (1833-1900) Served as a Colonel 4th Alabama Infantry, CSA Benjamin Allston was a Episcopal clergyman and colonel,…
On Fat Tuesday, February 13, 1866, Confederate veteran Joe Cain paraded through the streets of federal-occupied Mobile dressed as a Chickasaw Indian chief he…
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GRANNY'S HOUSE See More Family Stories from Dorothy Graham Gast My maternal grandparents were Mary Florence (Mamie) Cork and John Leland Barton, both born…
MEMORIES OF ENSLEY by Caroline I was born in Ensley, I believe on a corner of Prince Street. There were streets like 'Ave. I'--'G'…
Patron+ member story The Mary Frances last trip down the Warrior ended in disaster (Transcription from a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older…
The lands in Madison County were the first surveyed and sold in North Alabama. Prior to the sales in 1809 lands in and around…
The old Lyric theatre in Birmingham, Alabama has an interesting history. Located on the corner of Third Avenue and Eighteenth Street, it was originally…
JUST LIKE MINE By Joyce Ray Wheeler We were so young in 1953 when my husband became a mathematics professor at Howard College…
(Old Photographs are of the house of Richard and Rebecca (Beavers) Pratt's son, Hopkins Pratt, in Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama during it's demolition in 1994 -…
BELLS LANDING by Sherry S. Johnston Several weeks ago, I took a tour of Vredenburg, Hybart, Franklin, Bells Landing communities in Monroe County, AL.…
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Patron+ member story Thanksgiving Menu from November 25, 1931 Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click to see…
(Alabama's Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at…
The 1892 Alabama Cadets football team represented the University of Alabama in the 1892 college football season. The team was led by head coach…
On May 9, 1856, an election and probate court meets Athens, Alabama Scroll down for this Patron member story If this story is…
DAVID HUBBARD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1792-1874) Lawrence County, Alabama “Among the many men of a mark that have lived in Lawrence County, David Hubbard…
TWO DESSERT RECIPES FROM 1870S Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click to see how to Become a…
Patron+ member story - Click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama shipped cotton goods to China…
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