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. TEMPORARY CAPITAL IN HUNTSVILLE Before the time fixed for the assembling of the next session of the territorial Legislature, Congress took a hand in Alabama affairs, and on […]
In 1942, during WWII, Childersburg in Talladega, Alabama was overrun with workers at the new defense plant which manufactured high explosives. The large influx of 8000 workers in the small town of Childersburg, Alabama put a premium on housing for the workers. John Collier, Jr., "an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields […]
On May 9, 1856, an election and probate court meets Athens, Alabama (Extracts transcribed from THE ATHENS HERALD, Athens, Limestone County, Alabama on May 9, 1856) ESTRAY Taken up by P. W. Wilkerson living on Sugar Creek, a sorrel Mare with a star in her forehead, hind feet white, left eye out, about fifteen hands […]
A funny story—I bet he would be shocked at the world today. Do you know what the name of the store could have been on 23rd street in Birmingham? A BASHFUL EDITOR He Protests Against Girls Selling Men’s Underclothing (transcribed form the Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama – July 28, 1887) In the name of bashful […]
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