The Arnold family in Alabama has a Revolutionary War ancestor and has been a part of Alabama since statehood. One of two Revolutionary War flags in existence. This one was carried at the Battle of Stoney Point, General Posey commanding (Library of Congress) This book includes considerable research completed by others. EIGHT GENERATIONS OF ARNOLDS […]
The first substantial white settlement in what is now Gadsden was a village called “Double Springs”.This was begun by a mixed American Indian and Caucasian settler named John Riley when he built his house near two springs in about 1825. His home became a stagecoach stop on the Huntsville-to-Rome Georgia route. The home below was taken from its […]
(Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The autobiography was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly in 1944 and the first part of the article transcribed here tells about the Battle […]
(Excerpts transcribed from Goodwater Enterprise (Goodwater, Coosa County, Alabama October 13, 1905) LOCALS CONTINUED Mrs. George Elmer Crowell and little daughter, of Sylacauga, visited relatives here first of the week. Miss Hassie Neighbors of Sylacauga, spent a few days this week with her grandmother, Mrs. C. M. Pope. Mrs. M. I. Freeman has returned to […]
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Two interesting tombstones New England epitaph of 1872: “My father and mother were both insane I inherited the terrible stain, My grandfather, grandmother, aunts and uncles Were lunatics all, and yet died of carbuncles.” Rainsford Island, Boston Harbor: “Nearby these gray rocks Enclos’d in a box Lies Hatter Cox Who died of smallpox.” […]
I found this in some old records. Wouldn’t it be nice if a letter “bridge of love” could bring our country closer together today and heal all the division today. THE BRIDGE A. H. Allbright Acting Postmaster September 24, 1940 At first there was no bridge. On either side of the wide river people lived. […]
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