PAINT ROCK VALLEY, ALABAMA PIONEERS (posted to public stories Ancestry.com by genealogygeek) Flanked by steep mountains and threaded by a meandering river, Paint Rock Valley…
(Transcribed from Short Sketches of Jackson County, W. P. A. story from Alabama Department of Archives and History,) THE HUGHES FAMILY by Jennie Sue…
Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly…
The Skyline Farms project, established by the federal government in Jackson County in 1934, was one of the more unique socioeconomic experiments in Alabama…
Skyline Farms was a 'New Deal' Resettlement project in Jackson County, Alabama that was initiated in 1935 to help displaced farmers. Before the projects…
His biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI GEORGE LEE ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1839- d. 1862)…
EARLY JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA Jackson County, Alabama was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. Its territory was formed from that…
Click to Become a Patron and see stories like this Scottsboro is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, uniquely situated about 30 miles from…
Skyline Farms was one of 43 similar projects to assist and relocate farmers devastated by the Great Depression in a new home with a…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. Georgia…
These photographs of students and teachers at Skyline Farms in the Resettlement Community at Jackson County, Alabama during the Great Depression, reveal how far we've…
This is the 4th part of seven in the Skyline Farms photographs series. Skyline Farms was a farm resettlement community in Jackson County, Alabama…
Tiny houses are nothing new! Imagine living in these houses with a large family even if they were only temporary. This is part of…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935 Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 By…
Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 DOCTORS…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. A…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, William P. Burke BIGGEST RABBIT RAISING INDUSTRY Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama written ca.…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 All…
(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The earliest…
PATRON - Jackson County, Alabama boundaries have changed three times. From HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, William P. Burke Towns and Native Americans of Jackson County, Alabama written by…
Blood Flows in Big Coon, Alabama submitted by Ethel Crisp Taylor This story was in the “Bean Sentinel”, which is published by Ed…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, William P. Burke Note: First county court was held in Sauta Cave JACKSON COUNTY,…
Did you know that Skyline Farms actually started before the Federal Government assisted? To see more alabamapioneers.com stories and photographs of the people on…
PATRON - First Monday's in Scottsboro, Alabama - a tradition that was started by these three men. (Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA…
In 1817, John Woods, a Cherokee Indian, built a stone house just northeast of the park. He was granted 640 acres that included Russell…
(Click to read more about what happened to Bellefonte) (Transcribed extract from Bellefonte Courier and Jackson County Republican, April 11, 1839) By virtue of…
Patron - Bellefonte, Jackson County, Alabama – Sheriff Notices for land sales and sale of slave in 1839 (Transcribed extracts from Bellefonte Courier and…
Construction of the B. B. Comer bridge was carried out by the Kansas City Bridge Company for the Alabama State Bridge Corporation. Its construction…
![Beautiful Paint Rock Valley, Alabama “Little sister to Virginia’s Shenandoah” [pictures and story]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Paint_Rock_River-wikipedia.jpg)
![PATRON + Time to celebrate! [1937 photographs of people from Jackson County, Alabama] This is what they did for fun at Skyline Farms – Part 6 –](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/skyline-farms-outlaw-sign-220x76.jpg)
![PATRON + The people of Skyline Farms were seeking a better life in Jackson County [film & old photographs] some people considered it socialism](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wife-of-sharecropper-who-was-resettled-on-Skyline-farms-e1432130311365-220x143.jpg)
![PATRON + Schools have changed in many ways since these days when life was so much simpler – Notice how the teachers are dressed [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 5](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Skyline-farms-1936-school-19-e1432129505216-220x143.jpg)
![PATRON + Could you sit on these hard benches with no backs for long hours in school? [1936 Photographs & film] – Skyline Farms – Part 4 –](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Skyline-farms-school-scene-e1432129869732-220x160.jpg)
![PATRON + The people lived in these small buildings while they waited on a house to be built at Skyline Farms [vintage photographs] Part 2](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/skyline-farms-family-in-shack-1935-e1432130199434-220x164.jpg)
![PATRON – Cherokees were the first settlers in the Tennessee Valley of Alabama [names of delegates]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Tennessee-river3-e1397742247861-220x83.jpg)
