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Photograph Mardis-House-U.S.-Highway-231-Talladega Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 (Library of Congress) PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIII Probably it will be a matter…
The area which makes up Bullock County, Alabama belonged to the Creek Indians until the treaty of Fort Jackson ceded the western half of…
Reconstructed Bastion on Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama Early Alabama “The territory now called Alabama was but sparsely settled in 1792, except by the…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XI INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA The battle of Talladega, fought between the hostile…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPATION In peace and prosperity,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) The Removal Act Of 1830 With pressure mounting from white settlers to acquire…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8)1 Reverend Daniel S. Burtrick was present in 1838 when the Cherokees were confined to the stockades and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the Cherokees first started moving to the West, leaving their homeland behind, a strange phenomenon occurred…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VIII INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA After De Soto had left his trail of…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The roundup of the remaining Native-Americans began in Georgia on May 26, 1838; and continued for over…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VI John Box was appointed the first coroner of the county on Monday,…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 (WARNING! Some words may be offensive to readers today. We have…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) First news reports indicated that the move to Indian Territory was going well from the following letter…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XII Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek or Muscogee Nation, which numbered around…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Up to the last moment, the Cherokee still believed that the Treaty of Echota would not be…
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(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) During the Seminole War, almost 800 Creek warriors were told that they could remain with their families…
JOURNAL OF JAMES A. TAIT FOR THE YEAR 1813.1 (Diary entries from the 25th of August 1813 to the 25th of March 1815). Edited…
[Col. Hawkins, a member of President George Washington's staff and aristocrat, held the longest period of peace with the Creek Indians prior to 1812.…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) After the murder of William McIntosh and Hawkins, the group of Creek Chiefs…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Major General Winfield Scott was in charge of 7,000 federal and state troops whose job it was…
SURRENDER OF WEATHERFORD By William Gates Orr,1 of Okolona, Miss. (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) Okolona, Miss., Feby. 22, 1893. Mr. H. S. Halbert,…
Artifacts date back to 600 B. C. The ghost town of Cotton Gin Port in Monroe County, Mississippi was once part of Marion County…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) At the request of the Georgia Legislature, President Monroe invited all the chiefs…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) In 1817, the U. S. Senate Committee on Public Lands declared that Indian…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) By 1836, most of the willing Native-Americans had been removed to the land in the west, and…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Holy Ground Campaign And Battle The principal campaign and engagement between the Creeks and the whites…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the forced removal started in 1838, the United States troops built forts in Alabama and other…
Choctaw Crossing Places on the Tombigbee River By H. S. Halbert (Unedited transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous.. Volume 1 by…
