PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIV - XV The Circuit Courts, in the beginning of the Judicial history…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXX The religious and social life of the people in 1866 began to…
(Updated with the Newspaper article from 1813) BATTLE OF TALLADEGA The Battle of Talladega was an engagement between Gen. Jackson's army and a body…
During WWII, Childersburg in Talladega, Alabama was overrun with workers hired at the new defense plant that manufactured high explosives for the war effort.…
John Collier, Jr. was “an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology” was a member of…
In 1942, during WWII, Childersburg in Talladega, Alabama was overrun with workers at the new defense plant which manufactured high explosives. Housing was at…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIX The location of the buildings used by the Confederate States during the…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) GOLD MINES OF ALABAMA (From the Tuscaloosa Monitor ca. 1855)…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVIII The story of the desperate struggle of the people of this county…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVI By the seventh of October, 1861, Alabama had furnished fully twenty-seven thousand…
Interesting legend about Little River Canyon National Preserve An interesting legend about Little River Canyon National Preserve in Talladega is a local one about…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXV The full measure of heroic achievements by Talladega troops would require volumes,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIV On the 4th day of February, 1861, delegates from six of the…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIII The South Carolina state convention met at Charleston on Dec. 17, 1860,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXII In the decade following the Civil war there grew up a number…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XX The ruling class in all countries make more history than others. Those…
Photograph of Masonic Female Institute, Talladega, Talladega County, Alabama 1939 Manning Hall. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1850. Related name: State of Alabama…
Photograph Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 Lawler-House-County-Road-11-Talladega-Talladega-County, Alabama PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XVIII The comparative strength of whig and democrat in…
Photograph of MARKER OF JACKSON TRACE Alex Bush, Photographer, February 4, 1937 - Mardis House, U.S. Highway 231, Talladega PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XVI For thirty-seven years Whig and Democrat had battled for the presidency, with…
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…
During WWII, several Alabama small towns manufactured high explosives for the War. Here is a news article from June, 1941 that reveals where the…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
Happy Birthday! JOHN HARRIS LESLEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (Dec. 25, 1850- aft. 1904) Talledaga county, Alabama John Harris Lesley, a well-known citizen of Talladega…
Happy Birthday! FRANCIS MARION KING BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (Dec.25, 1832-Nov. 13, 1911) Talladega and Coosa county, Alabama Francis Marion King was one of…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VII The Indian occupancy of Talladega county began in those primeval ages, "whereof…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VI John Box was appointed the first coroner of the county on Monday,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER V The place where court should be held was rather a problem for…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER IV The first volume of the minutes of the commissioners' court, Talladega county,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Wellington Vandiver Chapter 3 Seventy-six years since Law came to the wilderness, and the county started merrily…
