Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala, Printers ALABAMA’S SECESSION CONVENTION The convention met in the hall of the House of Representatives in the Capitol building on the day fixed for the assembling, and so […]
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3, 1905. He was the son of Hugh Lee and Mary Catherine (Beekman) Alison, South Carolinians who removed from Charleston to Carlowville, in 1833. The former was educated in Charleston and graduated […]
May 17, 1836 Sumter County, Alabama ADVERTISERS Newspaper extracts from Voice of Sumter, Livingston, Alabama May 17, 1836 LOOK HERE ALL OF YOU! We have as good LIQUORS as ever was sold in this city, and we don’t wish our friends any harm, nor our enemies either, but we are anxious to have them "drink […]
Unusual Monument and Epitaph In the Magnolia Cemetery in the lot of W. S. Metcalf is a monument to a FAITHFUL FRIEND. This is the story about the tombstone. Magnolia cemetery, Mobile, Alabama 2010 by Carol Highsmith (Library of Congress) In 1903, a mill located near Cedar Point Road, known as the Metcalf Mill, was […]
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