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Front Porch Dentistry by Shannon Hollon I remember my grandmother(Pauline Campbell Bearden) telling me a story once when they were staying with her grandparents(…
The information and illustrations below are excerpts from a book written in 1887 as a prospectus for future investors in Tuscaloosa. Tuskaloosa (Tuscaloosa) is…
A Look back at the News on May 12, 1937 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. From The Tuscaloosa News May 12, 1937 Duelling Charge Filed Birmingham,…
Southern Cadets in Action (This letter has been transcribed from The Century 1890 – Volume 39 – Harvard College Magazine Monthly) In his sketch…
In 1938, Byron Thornhill, a Tuscaloosa County resident and president of a local labor union, went all the way to the United States Supreme…
The horrible thing also leaped and seated itself behind him During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write…
"The Alabama Insane Hospital was established by the legislature on February 6, 1952. Built in Tuscaloosa, it received its first patient in 1861, with…
Early Mayors of Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was…
SCHOOL DAYS POST WORLD WAR II Coming from a fairly new school in Childersburg in 1947 brought some changes when we moved back to…
The old Tuscaloosa Highway is one of the oldest roads in Alabama, parts of the remains of the Old Huntsville road one of the…
News from around Alabama from the May 28, 1874 Birmingham Iron Age Whooping cough is prevailing in Gadsden. Gadsden, Alabama The Gadsden Times of…
STELLA HOUGHTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (December 29, 1802 – April 25, 1844) Tuscaloosa/Tuskaloosa County, Alabama Miss Stella Houghton, who was born in Lynden, Vermont,…
Tuscaloosa was not united (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
THE BIG GULLY AND THE RAVINE (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who…
DAVID MARSHALL SCOTT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (December 23, 1847 - Tuscaloosa and Dallas County, Alabama David Marshall Scott, merchant and postmaster, was born December…
It Happened at 4:01 P.M. (Transcription from a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
These inscriptions and more can be found in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Evergreen Cemetery Inscriptions Before 1942 HISTORIC EVERGREEN CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA,…
Train wreck at Woodstock, Alabama - Shannon Hollon I remember as a child my late grandmother telling me of this deadly train wreck…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part X 1 Robert Jemison Tuscaloosa County A lawyer, businessman, legislator and leader of the…
CAPTAIN JOHN G. BARR CHAPTER XXXV (from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, 1886) by Hon. E. A.…
A snake ate a small fawn in Walker County? CHAPTER TWO by By HON. E. A. POWELL (Written in 1886 - exact transcription) …
(Transcribed handwritten, unedited story by WPA writer in the 1930s – please remember the time-period in which it was written) Mr. and Mrs. John…
February 11, 1930 From The Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 10 HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS RECEIVE HIGHEST HONORS Students Are Elected Into National Honor Society Of…
The People of Maubilla in early Alabama were Exterminated This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories…
[Some consider this mysterious stone a hoax while others believe it proves early visitors to Alabama in the year 1232. The stone even made…
CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
One of the first educational institutions in the Alabama was opened in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the fall of 1830 called the Tuscaloosa Female Academy…
The Enterprise Furniture Company was established by several businessmen in Tuscaloosa. SOURCE (Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) ALABAMA GENEALOGY…
John S. Hanley worked his way up to become a distinguished citizen of Tuscaloosa. SOURCE (Photograph and Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama…
Dr. W. S. Wyman, in 1899, was the senior member of the faculty of the University of Alabama. SOURCE (Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times,…
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