Once the United States acquired New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory through the Louisiana purchase from France in 1803, President Jefferson and other leaders recognized the need for a survey of the Territory and better communication with the settled area along the Mississippi River. Jefferson’s administration developed plans for roads to be cut throughout the […]
(Excerpts transcribed from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) THE BEGINNING OF TUSCALOOSA AND NEWTOWN By William S. Wyman Part V THE FIRST CHURCHES On the 24th of January, 1818, the first church was organized at the Falls of the Black Warrior river, at the house of Benjamin Higginbotham. It was of the […]
ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V Table of ContentsIntroductionPEOPLE IN THE FLORENCE TIMES DAILY December 15, 1894NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS from The Florence Times October 6, 1905GENEALOGY QUERIES published in 1940 APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ InvalidParameterValue|The value [1514210231, 1984152718, B078H3XG7Q, 1537639765, 1702436160, B08G6JJ5R, 1517010209, 1979411832, 153316293X] provided in the request for ItemIds is invalid. ]
A START IN THE LAW Illustrating what a trifling incident can influence a man’s whole career, it is told of Judge William Lindsay, who is now United States senator from Kentucky, that when a young man still in his teens he was plowing in his father’s field, which was near a cross roads store where […]
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