Once Gen. LaFayette agreed to the invitation of Governor Israel Pickens to visit Alabama, Gov. Pickens began to make preparations for his visit. (General Greening of Sparta plans great things for Claiborne): Sparta Dec. 31st 1824 Dear Sir. Since my return home, I have conversed with a great number of persons, all of whom […]
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Napoleon was conquering nations in Europe, a rumor of a possible transfer of the Louisiana Territory from Spain to France worried President Thomas Jefferson. He felt the best way to secure the land was to flood the area with white settlements and militarize […]
Marriage & Death Notices in the July – September 1878 Shelby Guide This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985 It has been copied as it was written in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL (*Note- These news articles are copied just as they were written in 1878 – Some of the words used may not be […]
FUNNY FRIDAY A MUSICAL BED (From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The last novelty from Germany is a musical bed, which receives the weary body and immediately “laps it in Elysium,” It is an invention of a mechanic in Bohemia, and is so constructed that, by means of hidden mechanism, a pressure upon […]
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