Blocton is a town in the northeast corner of Bibb County, about 20 miles northeast of Centreville. The town was first known as Gresham.and its…
September 19, 1953 was a historic day in Alabama: More than thirty years after it became law, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III- Scroll to see Table of Contents of book List…
(Transcribed from Crenshaw County News, Luverne, Alabama, Jan. 16, 1908) FOR TAX COLLECTOR I hereby announce myself a candidate for Tax Collector of Crenshaw…
Not a Fairy Tale Does the title of this story sound like a fairy tale or too far-fetched to be true? It really happened in the…
From The Florence – Times Daily August 25, 1922 A CRIMINAL NATION It is not exactly agreeable to read, in a report submitted to…
Not a Fairy Tale Does the title of this story sound like a fairy tale or too far-fetched to be true? It really happened…
[Politics in Alabama were contentious in Alabama's early days as this story reveals] (The article above has been transcribed (with spelling and grammar mistakes)…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I DANIEL WASHNGTON BURFORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1782-1847) Lawrence County, Alabama…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I PHILLIP A. FOOTE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1793- 1831)…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I Colonel Albert James Pickett COLONEL ALBERT J. PICKETT BIOGRAPHY…
TOD ROBINSON, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812-1870) Judge in California Tod Robinson, lawyer, judge, and legislator, was born on March 1, 1812, in…
EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants…
Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
"SCRAPS" RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone This excerpt has been transcribed from The Athens Post, April 11,…
THE BIG GULLY AND THE RAVINE (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who…
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