(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of the person she interviewed and some words may be…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) PERRY COUNTY PROBATE NOTICES ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Letters of administration on estate of…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) STATE OF ALABAMA – PERRY COUNTY Probate Court, Regular Term, Dec. 11,…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) New Advertisement J. B. Fiquet advertises a fine Hickory Buggy for sale.…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) Mrs. SARAH J. HOLMES, aged sixty-four and E-quire Larkin, aged sixty-eight, residing…
Excerpt from The Book of Birmingham by John R. Hornady, Illustrations by W. Paul Pim, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1921 The St. Nicholas Hotel…
Do you have old photographs that you would like to share or know more about? Alabama Patron members can now post them in the…
Excerpt about early days of Auburn, Alabama transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 03, Fall Issue EARLY HISTORY OF AUBURN By…
There are many unidentified Confederate soldiers photographs at the State of Alabama Department of Archives and History. I'm including a few below to see…
1853 YELLOW FEVER DEATHS NEAR THE DOG RIVER COTTON FACTORY & ST. STEPHEN'S ROAD (FROM: Report on the epidemic yellow fever of 1853 New…
(Continued from Part I - How a system of Public education developed in early Alabama Part II -The author Gen. William F. Perry was the…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) UNIONTOWN, ALA., DEC. 21ST, 1865 THURSDAY, 4 P. M. - At a…
Here are some interesting photographs from the Alabama Department of Archives and History from Bibb County, Alabama. Do you know any of the missing…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) At the request of the Georgia Legislature, President Monroe invited all the chiefs…
Reader Comment by Bob Anderson: Remind your readers that tombstones can carry a lot more info than just name, birth date and death date. …
Excerpts from The Book of Birmingham by John R. Hornady, Illustrations by W. Paul Pim, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1921 Laying out the early…
History of the 44th Alabama Regiment written by a member of the regiment in 1898. SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY FORTY-FOURTH ALABAMA REGIMENT By…
Kosaku Sawada was born in Osaka, central Japan Oct. 21, 1882. and pursued an education at Osaka University, graduating with a degree in agriculture. In 1906, he immigrated…
(Excerpt transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama January 16, 1908) ANOTHER RAIL HORROR Passenger and Freight Crash Through High Trestle Five People Killed…
(Transcribed Extract from The Atmore Record Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, September 18, 1903) LOCAL SPECS. Mr. W. M. Carney spent Tuesday in Mobile. Dr.…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) PERRY COUNTY PROBATE NOTICES GUARDIAN'S SALE On Tuesday, the 3d day of…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) MARRIED On the 21st inst., at the residence of Wm. S. Hanna,…
PATRON + The story from ex-slave & preacher, 94-year-old J. B. Watson, who lived in a shack in Mobile 1939 (WARNING! This WPA interviewer…
Not a Fairy Tale Does the title of this story sound like a fairy tale or too far-fetched to be true? It really happened in the…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF LAND Under, and virtue of an order of the…
This man's trade of watch-making was used in his unusual epitaph on his tombstone. "Here lies in horizontal position The outside case of George…
STORY OF JULIA BAKER EX-SLAVE by Mary A. Poole Written ca 1937 WPA AUTHOR (WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview…
(Transcribed from The Marion Commonwealth, Marion, Perry Co., Ala., December 28, 1865) FOREIGN IMMIGRATION COMPANY FOR THE STATE OF ALABAMA The undersigned propose to…
Choctaw Crossing Places on the Tombigbee River By H. S. Halbert (Unedited transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous.. Volume 1 by…
(Transcribed from The Macon Banner, Macon, Clarke County, Alabama April 24, 1845) IN CHANCERY Southern Division, Second District, of Alabama BILL FOR DIVORCE Martha…
