In September of 1817, when Alabama was still a Territory, land speculators flocked to Alabama due to the assertion of the fertility of the land. A part of the Big Bend, just opposite present-day Montgomery, was sold for $70 per acre. The high land on the Ten mile Bluff, opposite the Big Bend, was sold […]
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPANCY OF TALLADEGA CHAPTER X INDIAN OCCUPATION In peace and prosperity, with no more friction between the white and red races than the nature of the environment evoked, the Talladega Indians and the white settlers passed the first ten years after the […]
Excerpt transcribed from The Etowah Observer, Alabama City, Alabama March 17, 1932 Society Notes, Clubs Personal Members of the cast of "Thinking Makes it So," by Luigi Perandello, a play recently presented by the Little Theatre in Gadsden, journeyed over to Anniston Tuesday evening and presented the play before an audience of members of the […]
Humorous Tombstones Catholic Cemetery, La Pointe, Wisconsin: To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu Born 18 September 1822 Accidentally shot 4th April 1844 As a mark of affection from his brother —————————— Churchyard in Pembrokeshire, England "Here lie I, and no wonder I ‘m dead, For the wheel of the wagon went over my head, —————————— […]
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