A ROMANTIC LOVE STORY (Transcribed from the Times Daily, Florence, Alabama January 9, 1892) Washington Post Congressman Oates, of Alabama with his 55 years and only one arm, has a romantic story that surrounds the loss of the other arm. During the war he served in the Confederate army, and it was before Richmond that […]
The origins of Alabama Power Company can be traced to Attalla. The first electric generator operated by water was built in September 1882, at Appleton, Wisconsin but “the first hydroelectric plant for lighting a whole town was invented on a stream in Etowah County near Attalla by W. P. Lay in 1887. In 1903, three […]
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! (Excerpt transcribed from The Claiborne Southerner, Claiborne, Alabama, September 16, 1864) RELIGIOUS NOTICE The Rev. Mr. Damus will hold service at the Episcopal Church in Claiborne, on Sunday next, at 11 o’clock, A. M. There will also be preaching to the colored people at a half past […]
(Excerpt transcribed from THE TIMES DAILY Aug 4, 1894, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama) The Country Teacher’s Hard Lot Take the average of the pay given, grudgingly in too many cases, to our teachers – female and male alike – in the purely country districts of the United States and Canada and see how beggarly and […]
This is the introduction to the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records Bibb County is located near the center of the state of Alabama, south of Tuscaloosa and Shelby County. It was originally part of the very large Monroe and Montgomery counties in the Mississippi […]
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