Cherokee County, Alabama - Turkey Town was where treaties were formed HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Part II Mr. Hugh Cardon wrote…
[I have been unable to find any photographs for this school. Please share with AP if you have one by emailing a copy to…
Patron+ the early history of Marion Female Academy, Marion, Perry County, Alabama Patron+ Member Story THE HISTORY OF MARION SKETCHES OF LIFE in Perry…
Happy Birthday! BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM FLANK PERRY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1823 - 1901) Chambers, Talladega and Macon Counties, Alabama General William Flank Perry was…
(Many schools throughout the state of Alabama were built by the Alabama Freemasons. This was one of them) Dallas academy, an educational institution, was…
Daphne State Normal College ca. 1900 - main building Normal School established to educate teachers Daphne State Normal School was a "Class B" Normal…
SPRING HILL COLLEGE Mobile, Alabama Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama is the oldest Catholic college in the Southeast is also the third oldest…
The first two photographs are labeled morning attendance at a Mill school in Huntsville taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in December 1913. It may…
Happy Birthday! CHARLES WALDRON BUCKLEY BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (b. Feb 18, 1835 d. 1906) Montgomery, Alabama Charles Waldron Buckley was born at Unadilla…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM YANCEY ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1848-1925) Blount County, Alabama William Yancey Adams, a teacher, was born at Gum Springs, Blount County…
Today, LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college, affiliated with the Methodist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. LaGrange College actually opened…
Judson College is the fifth oldest women's college in the United States. It was founded by members of Siloam Baptist Church in 1838 in…
Patron+ member story Politics grew heated in 1892 during the election for governor. Reuben F. Kolb was a candidate for a coalition of Jeffersonian…
Patron+ Member Story Evidently, there were trees being cut down and building items taken at the site where it was being built to invoke…
Happy Birthday! RICHARD HOPKINS PRATT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1827 – 1908) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA On December 17, 1827, Richard Hopkins Pratt was born to…
Updated with new information! Happy Birthday! MARY DICKERSON PRATT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1800 – 1882) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Mary Dickerson Pratt was a lovely…
Happy Birthday! JOSEPH WARREN HARRIS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1847-1912) Pike County, Alabama Joseph Warren Harris, of Troy, Alabama, was born Dec. 9, 1847, near…
On December 17, 1819, only three days after the state of Alabama was admitted to the United States of America, an Act of the…
Happy Birthday! JAMES THOMAS ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1850-1917) Lee County, Alabama James Thomas Anderson was a chemist. He was born December 1, 1850,…
Patron+ member story EXCERPT FROM REFLECTIONS OF AN ALABAMA TEACHER, 1875-1950 Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is locked, click…
In 1874, Birmingham, Alabama was a new city, only three years old. and when Thanksgiving drew near, the Birmingham Iron Age, published an article…
Old Auburn photographs found at Alabama Department of Archives and History. . . Scroll down for this Patron+ member story If this story is…
Patron+ Member story The photographs below were made between 1890- 1910 and are probably of young women attending the Alabama Girls' Industrial School in Montevallo,…
We found this article posted in the Times Daily, September 12, 1891, Florence, Alabama. Alabama Polytechnic Institute or A & M. College's later became…
{The Downing Industrial School was an early school in Alabama for young ladies - and the life-long passion of one man} Rev. J. M.…
(Continued from Part III - The author Gen. William F. Perry was the first superintendent of education in Alabama) Patron+ member story - Click …/ to…
(Continued from Part II How a system of Public education developed in early Alabama Part III -The author Gen. William F. Perry was the first…
How a system of Public education developed in early Alabama Part I -The author Gen. William F. Perry was the first superintendent of education…
Cute story reveals a little about life in the 1950s..... China Teardrops by Joyce Ray Wheeler It was September of the year 1953. A…
Patron+ member story In the Tuscaloosa News on July 17, 1935 Montgomery, Alabama Governor Bibb Graves today had set in motion the machinery to…
![Did you know Selma High School originated in a building erected by Freemasons? [photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dallas-Academy-Selma-220x139.jpg)
![Daphne State Normal College – [see film] was a college specifically for teachers](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dapne-state-normal-college-220x80.jpg)
![Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, oldest college in Alabama and oldest Catholic College in Southeast [film & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/interior-of-St.-Josephs-chapel-spring-hill-college-220x146.jpg)
![Patron+ GOOD OLE DAYS: Some cotton mill children went to school, if you can call them schools [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/school-under-stairs2-hine-dec.-19131-220x83.jpg)
![University of Alabama is as old as the state [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/universtiy-of-alabama-e1396929825698-220x69.jpg)
