Thursday, April 23, 2020

Simpson Manuscript – It took 16 ballots before Montgomery was declared the capital...

 
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Simpson Manuscript – It took 16 ballots before Montgomery was declared the capital

  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 THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR REMOVAL At the election in the fall of 1845 the people voted on these propositions and they were carried. The total popular vote […]

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PATRON + A famous poet, Theodore O'Hara, spent his last days on an isolated Alabama plantation near Guerryton, Alabama.

One of America’s most quoted poets died in Alabama. Lines from his famous poem The Bivouac of the Dead are found on tombstones throughout the county. THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD By Theodore O’Hara This famous poem was written by Theodore O’Hara to commemorate the American dead in the battle of Buena Vista in the […]

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PATRON – Personal mentions in the first edition of the Birmingham Iron Age, published on February 12, 1874

This article and more abstracts are available in the eBook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume I  Personal mentions from the first edition of the Birmingham Iron Age, published in Birmingham, Alabama on February 12, 1874, by Frank Duval and Roberts. The non-appearance last year of the BIRMINGHAM IRON AGE, after a prospectus had been issued by […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – What if you had to dye and make all your clothes? Could you do it?

We take colors in our clothes for granted today but our ancestors had to dye their clothes for colors. It was a rather lengthy process. Throughout history, people have dyed their textiles using common, locally available materials and that is the case in Alabama. The majority of natural dyes are from plant sources – roots, berries, bark, […]

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