The Thomas Jefferson is well known for having a rooftop zeppelin mooring mast. Builders of the hotel created a tower for what was believed to…
Frequently, I run across interesting unidentified photographic treasures. Here are a few I found at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. If you…
From the Birmingham Iron Age Newspaper June 18, 1874 New apples are one dollar and ten cents a quart. Ten cents for the apples…
News from around Alabama from the May 28, 1874 Birmingham Iron Age Whooping cough is prevailing in Gadsden. Gadsden, Alabama The Gadsden Times of…
Today is the Alabama Theater's birthday! The Alabama Theater opened on the night of Monday, December 26, 1927. Lane Carter, a writer for the Birmingham…
(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS People who are born on Christmas Eve have the…
These news abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume 1 or THE FREE SCHOOL (Transcribed from the Birmingham Iron…
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In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in…
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight years of…
News from April 21, 1900. Besides the election results of April 1900 for the State of Alabama, The Pratt City Herald on April 21,…
The Iron Age was a Birmingham newspaper owned and edited by W. C. Garrett and Frank V. Evans in the early days of Birmingham.…
During the Great Depression in America, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, Over its eight…
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JOHN W. BUSH, Esq. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1841 -d. 1911) Jefferson County, Alabama John W. Bush, Esq., attorney at law, Birmingham, Alabama, was…
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PEYTON G. BOWMAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854 – 1916) Jefferson County, Alabama Peyton G. Bowman was an attorney at law in Birmingham, Alabama. He…
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SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the Clerk's office of the City Court of Birmingham, Jefferson county,…
When Birmingham was a young city, this is what she looked like.... Notes about photos in the film. Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger…
Patron – Personal and local news from around Jones Valley and Elyton April 1, 1854 (Excerpt Transcribed from The Jones Valley Times (Elyton, Alabama)…
This is an article and interview from May 21, 1885 with a Well-to-do "Old Residenter"—From The Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama He knew what it looked…
(Transcribed from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume II, 1921 ) ORGANIZED 1896 The Pratt Coal Co., the oldest of the…
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.…
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