Ghost stories or a part of Alabama’s past. Below are three unedited stories from 1939 written by a WPA writer who interviewed three African-Americans in 1939. Warning: Please remember this story was written in the 1930s and some words used may be offensive by today’s standard THREE GHOST STORIES FROM GAINESVILLE AND LIVINGSTON, ALABAMA written by […]
Excerpt from The Alexander Outlook, Alexander City, Alabama, Oct 7, 1892, tells about the early days Alexander City Something of the town we live in (written in 1892) Youngville, Tallapoosa County was the name of a little burg scarcely —ible for the timber surrounding it, a ….wild in ….ways, but inhabited by an honest, clever […]
(Transcribed from The Monroe Journal, Monroeville, Alabama, January 5, 1867) Chancery Court decrees 1867 MASTER’S SALE In pursuance of decrees of the Chancery Court for the second District, Middle Chancery Division of Alabama, sitting at Claiborne, rendered at the Nov. Term, 1866, in a certain cause, wherein W. G. Middleton was complainant and Robert E. […]
The early settlers of Alabama found themselves surrounded but the dense forest had to be felled and the fields cultivated. From History of Conecuh County, Alabama 1881 by Rev. B. F. Riley, we learn that in Conecuh County, the farmers did not have the implements to make the task easier. They had a few […]
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