This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants Routes Taken To The Alabama Territory After the Creek cession, the first lands in Alabama were put on sale at Milledgeville, Georgia and lay along the upper course of the Alabama River in the neighborhood of present-day Montgomery County. This is why there […]
Photograph of MARKER OF JACKSON TRACE Alex Bush, Photographer, February 4, 1937 – Mardis House, U.S. Highway 231, Talladega PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XVII In a new country roads are not needed except as population increases, nor are bridges necessary. In the early years of eighteen hundred pack […]
These newspaper abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V Transcribed From the Florence Times October 6, 1905 – Lauderdale County, Alabama. Doctor Pitt Will Take An Appeal Florence Postmaster Tried and Fined Fifty Dollars The trial of Dr. J. T. Pitt, postmaster, charged with threatening John T. Sego, a […]
MOON-EYED by J. W. Hand1 written ca. 1938 (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Grandpappy Cook had just finished bragging about selling a five-dollar calf for eighteen dollars, so to egg him on I said: "Grandpappy, did you ever do any horse trading?" We were sitting in front of my fire. He rolled his cud […]
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