This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V GEORGE MARCUS CRUIKSHANK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1852 Kentucky,…
Read this story and more in: ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) When Alabama was first settled by the French, they…
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE Planters' & Merchants' Bank of Mobile vs. fi fa Robert Cowan and…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! Some words may be offensive to readers today. We have…
Written November 4, 1938 by Ila B. Prine WPA Federal Writers' Project Mobile, Alabama A STORY OF A FISHERMANS LIFE Standing under a china…
YELLOW FEVER (Transcribed from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen) Alabama was first visited by this…
Read this story as well as many others in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories Continued below The daughter-in-law of Peter the…
(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of the person she interviewed and some words may be…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854-1920) Tuscaloosa, Alabama Note: Follow the linked articles to see all the other connections this…
Kosaku Sawada was born in Osaka, central Japan Oct. 21, 1882. and pursued an education at Osaka University, graduating with a degree in agriculture. In 1906, he immigrated…
On April 12, 1865 the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his command to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at…
(WARNING! During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history…
(WARNING! During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history…
The Marvel City Bessemer, Alabama was founded in the spring of 1887 as an important industrial center, popularly known as the "Marvel City." It…
This story is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume I - IV:…
Photograph of Cajun girl and boy in Mobile County, Alabama (Alabama Department of Archives and History) (Continued – from Alabama Folklore Part III) Unemployed…
The stories in Alabama Footprints - Exploration - A collection of lost & forgotten stories of Alabama, concerns the discovery of Alabama and the initial settlement era.…
Did you know that Mardi Gras started on Massacre Island? This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten…
SPRING HILL COLLEGE Mobile, Alabama Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama is the oldest Catholic college in the Southeast is also the third oldest…
Ghost town of Blakeley, Alabama On April 9, 1865, at 5:30 p.m, following an eight-day siege, the Battle of Blakeley was fought near Mobile,…
The Elks Club was originally formed in New York as the Jolly Corks from the theatrical profession. Elks Club house in Mobile ca. 1900…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) and SOME SOUTHERN STARR FAMILIES Compiled Genealogy Records,…
Excerpt from First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama Volume 1 JAMES GALLAGHER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1800- ca. 1843) Lawrence and Mobile County, Alabama…
It doesn't matter if you're a baseball fanatic who has their favorite players scorecard memorized or someone who has only watched a few games…
Glider flew in 1893 over Mobile Bay beach The land around Brookley field in Mobile, Alabama has played a part in United States aviation…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I AND FIRST FAMILIES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA VOLUME I …
(Do you know who the first governor of Alabama was? You may be surprised.) THE FIRST BRITISH GOVERNOR IN ALABAMA Major Robert Major Over…
PATRON – October 1915 news in Grand Bay of a stranger's death, severe insect bites, a family devastated by fever, and more. . .…
PATRON + First American ship ever sunk by a submarine was built in Mobile, Alabama On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine Hunley sunk…
MOBILE THE EMPORIUM OF ALABAMA1 (Excerpt written in 1901) Mobile County was formed out of Washington County in 1813 by proclamation of David Holmes,…
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