This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The last and decisive engagement between the Creek Indians and the United States forces under General Andrew Jackson was fought at Horseshoe Bend in what is now Tallapoosa County on March 27, 1814. For two months General Jackson had been increasing his forces and […]
In 1839, Evergreen Academy was first built sixty feet long, by thirty wide, one story high with piazza in front, full length, with a small room, used as a Library, made in the center of the piazza, to keep the male and female school separated while on the gallery. (Transcribed from Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Conecuh […]
Patron – Sick list, Mule falling on man, and a murder in the April 11, 1907 at Epes, Alabama (Transcribed excerpts from The Sumter Enterprise, Epes, Sumter County, Alabama, April 11, 1907) Mrs. Loucenda Lowry is on the sick list. Rev. L. Brown and wife are on the sick list. Miss Lougenia Madison is on […]
HOW TO KEEP ICE-WATER (Transcribed from Alabama Beacon (Greensboro, Alabama) September 23, 1890 Ice is so expensive this year that I am sure my hint for keeping it as long as possible in the ice pitcher will be thankfully received. A friend gave me the hint some years ago, and I have profited by it […]
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