Aaron Smith born (1720 – 1776) and his brother, Captain John Carraway Smith fought in the American Revolution and were captured and held at…
LEGEND OF COOSA During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
This is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below There are perhaps few…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 4) Tecumseh Causes Earthquake The Native American Chief Tecumseh arrived in Alabama in 1811…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) French trade from Mobile was principally by…
Lewis' Tavern at Fort Bainbridge Peter A. Brannon was a pharmacist chemist, 1900-1910. He spent the remainder of his career with the Alabama Department…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Missionaries in the Cherokee Nation banned together in support of the Cherokees, and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Napoleon was conquering nations in Europe, a rumor of a possible transfer…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Despite all efforts by the federal government, few Native-Americans, except for the Choctaws,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Tensions between the Creek Indians and white settlers became so strained in May…
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Prior to 1830, it was the general consensus in the United States Congress…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Tom Hendrix, the gr-gr-grandson of a young teenage Yuchi girl who was forced to travel on the…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below..... (Indian trading houses were…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Chief John Ross returned home (from Washington D. C.) in 1832, he…
Photograph of Chief John Ross - Chief John Ross 1843 Print shows John Ross, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, with right hand on a…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) John G. Burnett was involved in the Indian Removal in 1838-39 as a Private in Captain Abraham…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) “From 1805 to 1827, five lotteries were held to distribute former Creek lands.…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) The Removal Act Of 1830 With pressure mounting from white settlers to acquire…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8)1 Reverend Daniel S. Burtrick was present in 1838 when the Cherokees were confined to the stockades and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) To protect the Cherokees from this intrusion (gold miners) the United States stationed…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the Cherokees first started moving to the West, leaving their homeland behind, a strange phenomenon occurred…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Georgia was among the first to grow insistent upon obtaining possession of the…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The roundup of the remaining Native-Americans began in Georgia on May 26, 1838; and continued for over…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) After Colonel Crowell was cleared, General Gaines continued to visit and negotiate with…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) First news reports indicated that the move to Indian Territory was going well from the following letter…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek or Muscogee Nation, which numbered around…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Up to the last moment, the Cherokee still believed that the Treaty of Echota would not be…
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