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(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jan 3, 1855) DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESSES M. BRAUNE, Daguerreotype Artist, has lately arrived in Carrollton…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) DIED In Greene County, Ala., on the 2nd day of July…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) MASONIC CELEBRATION CARROLLTON LODGE NO. 214, celebrated the 27th of December…
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Slaves for sale and new grocery open in Pickens County in 1855 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama…
First Toll bridge in Alabama is now a historic landmark The first toll bridge in Alabama to be officially dedicated was the John Turner…
JOHN RANDOLPH COPELAND BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1862-1935) Pickens and Jefferson County, Alabama John Randolph Copeland was born October 25, 1862, in Pickens County, Alabama,…
(This is a reprint of HISTORY OF PICKENS COUNTY, ALA. By Nelson F. Smith, written in 1856 - it has many early settlers names.) Alabama…
DR. ALEXANDER W. AGNEW BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1824-1897) Pickens and Fayette County, Alabama A. W. Agnew was a physician, born September 17, 1824, in…
DEDICATION OF THE JOHN T. MILNER BRIDGE December 12, 1929 Address by General R. E. Steiner As a boy, I lived in Greenville, Alabama,…
The people of Gordo were shocked when their new water tank containing 68,000-gallons crashed to the earth on April 23rd, 1935 as the following…
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THE FACE IN THE WINDOW CARROLLTON, PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA Carrollton is the county seat of Pickens County, in the central part of the county…
Contributed by: Adrienne Thompson John Cook Hendon m. Mary Ann Reynolds 1/11/1848 in Pickens Co., Ala. BirthsJohn Cook Hendon, (son of Rev. Benjamin Morris…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jan 3, 1855) LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post-Office at Carrollton, which, if…
REV. CHARLES STEWART BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY Pickens County, Alabama (Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) The following…
Transcribed story from the Birmingham Iron Age which was published on March 19, 1874 reveals what a typical farmers' life was like in Pickens…
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