This small community in Barbour County had 400-500 residents and four churches in pioneer days. A local historian, Margaret Clayton Russell, talked about Batesville in…
EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMAi By W. L. Andrews 1899 After the War Between the States When the war closed those who had survived…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! This may be offensive to readers today. We have transcribed…
Doctor P. P. Salter 343 Eufaula Street by Gertha Conric (or Corric) Eufaula, Alabama April 26, 1939 “He calls no hour of day or…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! Some words may be offensive to readers today. We have…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM WICKER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (1760-1852) Barbour and Pike County, Alabama William Wicker was born Dec. 22, 1760 in…
Eufaula, phoenix like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Transcribed from The Clayton Record…
I recently ran across these interesting fox hunting photographs at the Alabama Department of Archives and History taken in Barbour County, Alabama in the 1930s.…
A short (approximately 30 minute) drive on Highway 10 in southeast, Alabama from Clio in Barbour County to Abbeville in neighboring Henry County, takes,…
(Continued from Part I) An inspiring unedited true story from the author of History of Eufaula, published in 1930 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . .…
An inspiring unedited true story from the author of History of Eufaula, published in 1930 SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . True Life…
Life History of Mrs. Minnie Richards SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Eufaula, Alabama Women Executive, Telephone…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! STANLEY HUBERT DENT, JR BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1869-aft. 1938) BARBOUR, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALABAMA Hon. Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr, attorney at law…
Happy Birthday! ALLIE CLETUS ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1886-aft. 1940) Geneva, Barbour and Shelby County, Alabama Allie Cletus Anderson was born August 9, 1886,…
Happy Birthday! MICHAEL CODY, JR. (b. 1862 - aft. 1900) BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY BARBOUR and MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALABAMA Michael Cody Jr., president of the…
Happy Birthday! ISAAC BALL FEAGIN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1833- 1900) Barbour County, Alabama Isaac Ball Feagin (deceased May 2, 1900) was born in Jones county, Ga.,…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! JOHN MANSON ALSTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1850-1899) Barbour…
Spring moved twice The spring at Blue Springs State Park actually moved by itself to two other locations before finally settling in it's current…
REV. ISAAC WASHINGTON WILKES Biography and Genealogy (1822-1894) Dale, Talladega, Barbour County, Alabama Rev. Isaac Washington Wilkes was a pioneer Baptist minister of Alabama.…
Eufaula is blessed with many old trees The city of Eufaula, Alabama is blessed with many beautiful historic houses, and it also has many old…
The beautiful plantation mansions of Glennville, Alabama have a connection with Auburn University. Glennville was named for Rev. James E. Glenn who came to…
Happy Birthday! ANDREW W. BEVERLY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1833- 1912) BARBOUR, MACON, BULLOCK CO., ALABAMA Andrew W. Beverly was born in Upton county,…
In the early 1830's the eyes of the country were turned upon the eastern frontier of Alabama where the long occupancy of the Creek…
ARISTO APPLING WILEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1848 -d. aft. 1901 ) BARBOUR, PIKE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY Hon. Aristo Appling Wiley congressman from the second…
Established in 1821 when still a part of Pike County, Louisville is one of the oldest towns in Alabama and was the county seat…
GLENNVILLE, ALABAMA (Transcribed From Smartt, Eugenia Persons..History of Eufaula, Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, printers, 1930, c1933. - Some of the homes mentioned…
Barbour County is well-known for its pecan trees and it is probable that the first pecan grove in Alabama was planted about 1836-7 in…
CLAYTON, BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA (from History of Barbour County, Alabama. Eufaula, Alabama, 1939 by Mattie Thomas Thompson) Clayton became the county seat of Barbour…
Why would this tavern in Barbour County need a secret stairway? Do you have any suggestions? Second-largest historic district in Alabama The Seth Lore…
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