This letter from Professor Connerly to the editors of the Birmingham Iron Age newspaper has been transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age April 16,…
Brighton is an incorporated mining town in the southern part of Jefferson County, just north of Bessemer, which is its post office, and about…
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From the Birmingham Iron Age of July 2, 1879, we gain a perspective on how children were dressed around this time with this article.…
(Transcribed excerpt from BIRMINGHAM & JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL by (Teeple & Smith Publishers 1887) About the year 1823, I think it…
LOYAL ORDER of the MOOSE Loyal Order of the Moose was a secret, beneficiary society, paying sick and funeral benefits. It was founded in…
These newspaper abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume I On March 5, 1874, a man at the Exchange Hotel…
Jefferson county was created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. The territory from which this county was formed was taken from…
NOTICES FOR PUBLICATION (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal (Bessemer, Alabama) Dec. 20, 1888) LAND OFFICE AT MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA November 21st, 1888 Notice is…
STATE NEWS (Transcribed from Birmingham Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama, Feb. 12, 1874) The Court-house of Pickens county is advertised for sale by the sheriff'.…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) DEPUTY HURT BY ALLEGED 'LEGGERS Receives Severe Cuts on Arm Following clash on Leeds…
ABOUT TOWN (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal (Bessemer, Alabama) Dec. 20, 1888) A wrong impression having gone abroad, Dr. S. W. Talley, the dentist,…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) Some Descendants of JAMES CRAWFORD (1789-1839) Hale County, Alabama James Crawford, son of George…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) SOCIETY PERSONALS Miss Louise Bell, of Nashville, will arrive Friday to be the guest…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) CHRISTMAS DANCE AT HOME OF MR. AND MRS. FAY A dance at the home…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) SOCIETY PERSONALS Mrs. A. Worrell and son, James, are spending the holidays in Parish,…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) MRS. GRIDER AND SISTERS ENTERTAIN AT JANUARY TEA Mrs. Frank Grider and her sisters,…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) MORGAN KIWANIANS TO HOLD ELECTION ALBANY-DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 27 – Special - The regular…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) FAMILY REUNION AT ANNISTON ENJOYED ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 27 – Special - Mr. and…
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) HELENA PIONEER DIES HELENA, ALA., Dec. 17 – Special - Funeral services over the…
Mary Anderson was born in Greene County, Alabama in 1866. She moved with her widowed mother and sister to the booming town of Birmingham, Alabama…
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH Oldest Church in Jefferson County By Bess Stout Lambert [Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 02, No. 04, Winter Issue…
PERSONAL Note: Some of the Personal mentions were omitted because the newspaper was too faded and they were unreadable. (Transcribed extracts from the Herald-Journal…
(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) MONTEVALLO MURDER Walter S. Cary, attorney, was shot and killed Friday…
SAMUEL DAVIES WEAKLEY (1860 – 1921) Jefferson County, Alabama BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY SAMUEL DAVIES WEAKLEY, of the Birmingham bar, has gained an eminence in…
History of Camp Ground Bethlehem Church, Graham Alabama by Mrs. W. M. Caskey Mississippi of Calif. in 1979 The Old Brockville Camp Ground Bethlehem…
I grew up in Alabama and on hot summer days we had to find ways to entertain ourselves and endure the heat without air-conditioning.…
Community Sing and Whist Players passed the time in Birmingham, Alabama March 20, 1920 (Transcribed from The Voice of the People, Birmingham, Alabama, March…
To Grandmother's house we go by Ben White Many fall weekends, our family, Dad, Mother and three children, would catch the Trailways bus and…
Arlington in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama is a wonderful example of Greek Revival architecture which dates back to the 1840s. It is located on…
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