Thursday, June 18, 2020

On February 22, 1825, William Rufus King wrote this letter to the Governor of Alabama...

 
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On February 22, 1825, William Rufus King wrote this letter to the Governor of Alabama

William Rufus King official portrait Washington City 22 February 1825 Dear Sir: Genl. LaFayette leaves this City tomorrow on his southern Tour and expects to be at our State line on the Chattahoochee on the Twenty Seventh of March, at which place you will I presume cause him to be met, and arrangements made to […]

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PATRON + (Old Photos) Alabama farmers supplied food for WWII soldiers – Part II

Coffee County farmers supplied food for the Southeastern Air Training Center at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama in 1941. When the U.S. officially entered the World War II, the need for food for the soldiers increased everywhere. Farmers who had received help from the federal government during and after the Great Depression were encouraged to produce […]

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PATRON – News notes Transcribed From The Alexander Outlook, Alexander City, Alabama, Oct 7, 1892, reveal much about the people

News notes Transcribed From The Alexander Outlook, Alexander City, Alabama, Oct 7, 1892, reveal much about the people NOTICE! NOTICE! I will sell at public outcry in front of the depot at Alexander City, Ala., at 2 o’clock on Saturday the 24th day of September 1892, all the notes and accounts due to the old […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – Chute for feeding a pig or calf in a basement

  (Transcribed Extract from The Atmore Record Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, September 18, 1903) GOOD THING TO HAVE Chute for Lowering Pail Where Pigs and Calves are to be Fed in a Basement To feed a pig or calf in a basement, do not pour the milk down a spout, for the inside of the latter […]

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