Posted by Dorothy Graham Gast on 21 February, 2020
REALITIES by Dorothy Graham Gast Click to read more of Dorothy Gast’s stories When I read Proverbs 31 as a teenager, I decided to try to be that kind of woman. I bought cloth to make clothes; tried to plan and prepare good meals and planted fruit trees. It appears the rules have changed. […]
Did you know? Names suggested for Birmingham, Alabama were Powellton after Colonel Powell of Elyton Land Company, Milnerville, or Morrisville afterh Josiah Morris or Muddtown after Judge Mudd. Birmingham was decided on because Birmingham, England was the seat of iron manufacture in England and that is what everyone hoped Birmingham would become. December 14 was […]
(Transcribed from the Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) CHARLESTON INSURANCE & TRUST CO. Capital 1,000,000 of Dollars all — ca The subscriber continues to take Fire, Marine and Inland navigation risks for the above named Company. From the following Certificate it will be seen, that he is authorized to settle and pay […]
It was evidently quite uncomfortable for women to be fashionably dressed according to this article from 1875. (Transcribed from The Athens Post – Athens, Alabama – April 2, 1875) Take a man and pin three or four large tablecloths about him, fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons; drag all his own hair […]
The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. 2 come from many sources. A good deal of the information comes from source books written when the subjects were still living. Additional information and/or documentation on any of the subjects has been included at the end of each biography. This is Volume […]
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