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…
Happy Birthday! Colonel Albert James Pickett COLONEL ALBERT J. PICKETT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1810 d. 1858) Autauga County, Alabama Colonel Albert J. Pickett…
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 TOD ROBINSON, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1812-1870) Judge in California Tod Robinson, lawyer, judge, and legislator, was born on March 1, 1812,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! DANIEL WASHNGTON BURFORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1782-1847) Lawrence County, Alabama Daniel Burford is the brother of Jonathan Burford and the son of…
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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)…
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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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…
