(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS – Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) CONTINUED BELOW… There were many routes that early pioneers used to move to the newly created state of Alabama. One route from the North Carolina/South Carolina area of the Pee Dee River. Immigrants frequently traveled with pack-horses over two hundred miles to the […]
On February 15, 1823, Hunter Peel, a civil engineer from England, executed an agreement with the Board of Trustees to furnish water to the town. Established by an Englishman Hunter Peel was born in England on July 17, 1785, the son of Joshua Peel. He passed away on March 9, 1831, in Huntsville, Alabama. Hunter […]
February 11, 1930 From The Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 10 HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS RECEIVE HIGHEST HONORS Students Are Elected Into National Honor Society Of Tuscaloosa High Ten new members from the senior class of the Tuscaloosa High School were elected to membership in the Druid Chapter of the National Honor Society at this school in […]
How to cure rheumatic gout and using food for ailments instead of medicine (Transcribed from The Iron Age, Birmingham, March 5, 1874) An Englishman with rheumatic gout found this singular remedy a cure for his ailment: He insulated his bedstead from the floor by placing underneath each post a broken-off bottom of a glass bottle, […]
This story is an excerpt from A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I JOHNSTON M. McCAULEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1817-1873) Perry County, Alabama Johnston McCauley was born on January 20, 1817 in Orange County, North Carolina, the sixth child of Charles McCauley and Mary Wilson. He was the grandson of […]
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