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TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – the ghost town of Blakeley was destined to become a great city!...

 
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TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – the ghost town of Blakeley was destined to become a great city!

(Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY) (The following story is the second section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of early towns in the Alabama Territory. It was published in 1817 when Alabama was still a Territory and first printed in the New York Herald, then copied in the Alabama Republican, […]

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PATRON + 1899 News clipping about The Enterprise Furniture Company

The Enterprise Furniture Company was established by several businessmen in Tuscaloosa. SOURCE (Clippings from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III Table of ContentsLIST OF VOTERS IN BUTLER COUNTY, ALABAMA August 1820;JACKSONVILLE REGISTER, ALABAMA January 28, 1837;ALABAMIANS KILLED IN TORNADO OUTBREAK March 1932;THE GREENSBORO GUARDS Hale County, Alabama;GENEALOGICAL INQUIRIES […]

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PATRON – Visitors, politics and rape are included in these news extracts from June 2, 1876, in Blount County, Alabama

Visitors, politics and a rape are included in these news extracts from June 2, 1876, in Blount County, Alabama (Transcribed extracts from The Bangor Broad-Axe, Bangor, Blount County, Alabama, June 2, 1876) We return to thanks to Mrs. J. A. Collins for a mess of fresh pork which she was so kind as to send […]

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PATRON + Good Ole Days – curing snake and spider bites

I don’t think this plaster would help very much with a rattlesnake bite. (Extract transcribed from THE ATHENS HERALD, Athens, Limestone County, Alabama on May 9, 1856) For a rattle-snake bite or spider sting take the yolk of a good egg, put in a tin cup, and stir in as much salt as will make […]

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