Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Arlington – the only antebellum house left in Birmingham has ties to the city’s founders. [photographs & film]...

 
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Arlington – the only antebellum house left in Birmingham has ties to the city's founders. [photographs & film]

Arlington in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama is a wonderful example of Greek Revival architecture which dates back to the 1840s. It is located on six acres in Old Elyton which was the first permanent County Seat of Jefferson County. It was originally called ‘The Grove’ and was built by Judge William S. Mudd, one of the […]

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PATRON+ The dangers and difficulties of transporting cotton from north Alabama

The dangers and difficulties of transporting cotton from north Alabama LATER HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY By Thomas Jones Taylor (Judge Taylor’s “Early History of Madison County” was concluded in the Spring, 1940, issue of the Alabama Historical Quarterly. This installment is the second of his “Later History of Madison County”, the first being in the […]

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PATRON – Man's foot is crushed by a train, Emma Porter died, and a train ran over a cow.

Man’s foot is crushed by a train, Emma Porter died, and a train ran over a cow. (Transcribed from The Shelby Chronicle, Shelby County, Alabama, October 2, 1884) The Baptists are having a new cover put on their church. Mr. Joe Hill, of Jamison, (Jemison?) visited relatives in town Saturday. Mr. H. S. Nelson spent […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: This brother-in-law knew the true story

A Monument in Horsley-Down Church, Cumberland, England, bears the following singular and admonitory inscription (1768): Here lie the bodies Of Thomas Bond and Mary his wife. She was temperate, chaste, and charitable; But She was proud, peevish, and passionate. She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother; But Her husband and child, whom she […]

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