This is an interesting story about Walker County, Alabama early history that appeared in the Tuscaloosa Gazette in August, 1886. EVENTS IN EARLY WALKER…
While doing research for stories, I frequently run across many photographs of people, (identified and unidentified) including the Confederate veterans below which may be of interest…
Legend states that during the year 1862 when the Civil War was being fought, many people buried their gold for safekeeping in Shipp's Pond. …
History of the Confederate Flag The 'Confederate flag' waved today was never the official flag of the Confederate States of America. Rather, it was…
One-room schoolhouses were common in rural communities before the 1940s, but they often meant that more advanced courses were not offered to many students.…
Happy Birthday! CHARLES POMEROY ALMON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1872-1946) Lawrence and Franklin Counties, Alabama Charles Pomeroy Almon was a lawyer and circuit judge in…
When Birmingham was a young city, this is what she looked like.... Notes about photos in the film. Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger…
Times were hard after the Civil War, but people still kept their sense of humor. Here are some humorous and ridiculous tips for life…
It is so much fun to look back and remember the wonderful things about living in Alabama and the south. Children still do some…
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…
Patron member article These newspaper abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VII click …/ to see how to Become a Patron…
Patron member story These news abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI or Click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and…
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…
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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