AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD PART I HARFORD DEMOCRAT BEL AIR, MARYLAND. Friday Morning, May 11th , 1888. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SAMUEL FORWOOD A Native of Harford County, Md., now a Resident of Gosport, Ala. Written for Preservation in the Archives of the Harford Historical Society. READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY APRIL 28, 1888. […]
Once Gen. LaFayette agreed to the invitation of Governor Israel Pickens to visit Alabama, Gov. Pickens began to make preparations for his visit. (At Cahaba, Claiborne and Mobile, preparations are being made for very elaborate entertainment of the expected guest. The committees of arrangements at this places so apprises the Governor: In a paragraph of […]
Abbeville is a city in Henry County, Alabama, and it is the oldest remaining colonial settlement in East Alabama from Florida to Tennessee. An active trading post was set in Abbeville in early 1819 while Alabama was still a territory. (Transcriptions from Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) Meeting of the Henry County MEDICAL […]
Did you know…..? “Old State Bank in Decatur, now preserved as a museum, was opened in 1833 as one of three branches of the Alabama State Bank.” “The state’s worst day for tornadoes was March 21, 1932, when a series of twisters touched down across the state…with estimates of a death toll at more than […]
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