Click here to see the paperback version of Alabama Footprints Confrontation is on sale for $5.49 (List price $12.97) just in time for Christmas…
In October 1957, Sputnik was launched by the Russians, but the US scientist in the then small town of Huntsville, Alabama were not far…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer JEREMIAH CLEMENS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (December 28, 1814 – May 21, 1865)…
Madison County, Alabama settlers believed in education from its earliest days SOME SETTLERS OF EARLY MADISON COUNTY by Thomas Jones Taylor i (1829-1894) I…
(News transcribed from the Times Daily – Florence, Alabama June 2, 1894) TWENTY-SIX PRISONERS LONELY There are twenty-six prisoners in the Huntsville Jail, and…
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY Episcopal, Huntsville, Ala (A reprint from the program issued by the Church on its Centennial Anniversary, 1843-1943.) The first officially…
The rich lands in the Tennessee Valley were prized by speculators long before its actual settlement. When America's independence from England was declared, and…
(Excerpts transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Letters of Administration on the Estate of Sarah…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
This excerpt and more can also be found in Alabama Footprints - Immigrants Continued below The area which constituted the future state of Alabama…
[Note - The annual Maple Hill Cemetery Stroll will take place this year October 20, 2019 from 1:30 The PODCAST was recorded at an earlier…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) STATE OF ALABAMA – MARSHALL COUNTY Court of Probate, December…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) GREENE ACADEMY – The military feature is proposed to be…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Take notice that, on…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) ELECTION NOTICE There will be an election held on the…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! JAMES ALLAN BOYD BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1826-1920) by…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband…
JOAB LAWLER BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1796 – 1838) North Carolina and Madison, Shelby, Bibb, Coosa, Talladega Counties, Alabama Joab Lawler, public official and a…
(Imagine what it was like traversing Alabama alone when it was a wilderness. You can hear the tension in Richard Breckenridge's words as he…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! GEORGE FOOTE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1784-1825) MADISON and…
On February 15, 1823, Hunter Peel, a civil engineer from England, executed an agreement with the Board of Trustees to furnish water to the…
These photographs of young cotton mill workers taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in November and December 1913 are haunting. Merrimack mill was located in Huntsville,…
The founder of Huntsville, John Hunt, was the first white man to build his hut on the banks of the Big Spring. His cabin…
In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the…
Happy Birthday! REV. JOHN ALLAN BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1788-1843) By Lavone Johnson Anglen Reverend John Allan wrote an autobiography of his life which was…
Happy Birthday! PHILLIP A. FOOTE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1793- 1831) MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA Phillip A. Foote was born on April 14, 1793. He…
Happy Birthday! DANIEL NELSON COOPER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1839-1911) LAWRENCE and MADISON and MARION COUNTIES, ALABAMA Daniel Nelson Cooper was born at Mount Vernon,…
JAMES M. ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1790- 1856) Marshall and Madison County, Alabama James M. Adams, of Marshall, was a young lawyer, and…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM BOYD, JR. BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1783-1855) Madison County, Alabama By Lavone Johnson Anglen William Boyd was a Junior he was born…
Patron – A land claim was contested in Huntsville, Alabama in December 1900 (Excerpts transcribed from The New Era, Double Springs, Alabama, Jan. 4,…
LEVI WELBOURNE LAWLER BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1816-1892) Madison, Shelby, Talladega Counties Levi Welbourne Lawler, business man, was born Oct. 4, 1816, in Madison County;…
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