This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at Amazon.com (continued below) FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ALABAMA (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882) For sixty-five years the French held the territory now included in Alabama. The population of […]
When Birmingham was a young city, this is what she looked like…. Notes about photos in the film. Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55 in the film “was one of the by-products of messenger work. He lived in Bessemer, R.F.D. #1.” Lewis Wickes Hine, Photographer 1906, Library of Congress wrote this about him. "Saturday night, […]
Patron – House, plantation and hogs for sale, plus personals from Sumterville, Ala. April 11, 1907 (Transcribed excerpts from The Sumter Enterprise, Epes, Sumter County, Alabama, April 11, 1907) FOR SALE House and 25-Acre Lot My residence, known as the Willis Curl home, built to live in and not for sale, was Mr. Curl’s idea […]
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