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PATRON – Murderer John R. Hardin captured in Shelby County in 1851

(Extract from Anti-Secession Banner, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama June 24, 1851) TEXAS LANDS – A letter before us from a public officer says that…

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PATRON – Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama

During 1937, the  Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…

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AUTHOR SUNDAY – You’ll never make me believe that the Lord didn’t watch over us – Wilcox County, Alabama

AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART III By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We had Sunday School one Sunday a month…

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PATRON + Photographs of Gee’s Bend – two years after the assistance of the Federal Resettlement program in 1939 – new homes

The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…

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PATRON + Gee’s Bend in Wilcox County, Alabama at the start of the Federal Government Resettlement Program in 1939

In 1937, the United States Government Resettlement Program purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in Wilcox County, Alabama and divided the land, then…

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PATRON – Gee’s Bend was a part of Federal Government’s Resettlement Program in 1935 and a part of Roosevelt’s New Deal plan

GEE'S BEND, (BOYKIN), WILCOX COUNTY, ALABAMA Gee's Bend was originally named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina…