Vice-President William Rufus King Incident (Written in 1910) An incident of particular interest occurring shortly after St. Stephens was made the capital of Alabama Territory was a certain real estate venture of William Rufus King who later became vice-president of the United States. Mr. King’s home was in the little town of Cahaba, a settlement […]
EARLY SETTLERS IN HUNTSVILLE BY JUDGE THOMAS JONES TAYLOR transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly Vol I, N. 3, Fall Issue 1930 Before the land sales Huntsville was a straggling village of squatters, living on government land and in the rude log cabins. The settlement was scattered along the table lands from Pope’s Hill […]
(Transcribed from The Monroe Journal, Monroeville, Alabama, January 5, 1867) LOCAL ITEMS The Journal has a free circulation on all the Steamers on the Ala. River. It will be seen that the worthy house of Levy, Woolverton & Co. No. 58 Dauphin street, has Phenix like, arisen from its ashes. Notwithstanding their recent losses in […]
Lace was very popular and used in many ways during the 1890s, including dresses. Here are some ways black lace was cleaned found in a 1890s book. To Clean Black Lace No. 1 A teaspoonful of gum arabic dissolved in one teacupful of boiling water when cool, add half a teaspoonful of black ink; […]
Read about more events that happened on this date in ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume 1 at Amazon.com The first edition of the Birmingham Iron Age was published in Birmingham, Alabama on February 12, 1874. A subscription cost $2.00 for a year, or $1.00 for six months. It included the following transcribed news and events about […]
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