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This is the final story of what happened to Lilly Gardner and Festus Caddell. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, April 25, 1901)…
THE CAHABA LILY by Inez McCollum I had heard about this mysterious lily for several years. I had seen pictures and read articles with…
The trials of a sensational event that took place in Bibb County, Alabama in 1900. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, March 14,…
Part II of the sensational event that took place in Bibb County 1900. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, June 21, 1900) PRELIMINARY…
(Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama, April 20, 1899) Mr. Festus Caddell and Miss Mamie Mulky were married at Six Mile…
Donation Parties - Have you ever heard of them? Donation Parties by Maude Dreisbach Editorial Dept. (WPA Alabama Federal Writer's Project) Written in 1930s…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) ELBERT SOULE STARR BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1845…
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Photograph Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 Lawler-House-County-Road-11-Talladega-Talladega-County, Alabama PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XVIII The comparative strength of whig and democrat in…
Excerpt transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama March 13, 1840) COMMITTED To the Jail of Bibb County, on the 11th October, 1839, a…
(This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985) BRIERFIELD LETTER The following letter was written by Robert L. McCalley to a Huntsville newspaper…
Coosa and Cahaba coal fields (Written in 1910) The discovery and original crude workings of various of the mines in the Coosa and Cahaba…
Mahan boys and comrades (Written in 1910) The three Mahan boys and their comrades, following the good fight at New Orleans, split up into…
(From the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama Jan 14, 1885 -transcribed in the Cahaba Journal Vol I) THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT Immense Loss of…
(Transcribed from the Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi – September 10, 1818) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS, by an act of…
We Needed those jobs by Shannon Hollon My GGrandfather Dunbar Campbell was born 12/1/1899 in Scottsville Ala. (Bibb County).He was the son of Dr.…
This is a beautiful State Park south of Birmingham and a wonderful place for a picnic or outing. They have saved and restored many…
Here are some interesting photographs from the Alabama Department of Archives and History from Bibb County, Alabama. Do you know any of the missing…
Do you know anything about these photographs? Brown Bros. Saw Mill No 2 near Randolph Ala ca. 1900 Collection of Duke and Weeks…
Happy Birthday! ORANGE ALBRIGHT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822-1915) Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Orange Albright, a farmer, was born August 15, 1822, at Danielsville, Madison County,…
JOSIAH GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1883) Bibb and Tuscaloosa, Alabama Josiah Gorgas was born July 1, 1818, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was graduated…
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART…
During the "Alabama Fever" period of United States history, early settlers migrated to Alabama from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, and…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! MORGAN HOWARD SUBMITTED BY JACQUE OTTS (1821 NC-1850…
With the removal of the Indians in 1814 by Andrew Jackson and his men, settlers began to migrate to the fertile Cahawba land that…
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(Transcribed from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama Jan 14, 1885 -transcribed in the Cahaba Journal Vol I) THE STORM SUNDAY NIGHT Immense Loss…
Happy Birthday! BENJAMIN CUDWORTH YANCEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (April 27, 1817- October 24, 1891) South Carolina, Georgia, Bibb, Cherokee and Coosa Counties, Alabama (Excerpt…
STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION The Capt. Sam Bursts her Boiler and Goes Down (Transcription from Bibb Blade November 26, 1884 in Bibb County Heritage Association…
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