During the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-1920 the death toll worldwide reached 20 million including 548,000 Americans in 10 months. Compared to 20 million soldiers and civilian deaths in all of WWI. It reached all parts of the globe, annihilating Eskimo villages in Alaska and one out of every 5 people in Western Samoa. The […]
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXI (Continued) J. T. MAY J. T. MAY was a Methodist preacher who studied law and was admitted to practice late in life. He removed from a county south of here to Talladega in the sixties. He was tall, with a deep, sonorous voice, […]
IRVINGTON NEWS AND NOTES GATHERED BY CORRESPONDENTS (Transcribed from The Grand Bay News, Grand Bay, Alabama, October 1, 1915) Events Of The Past Few Days Occurring Within The Limits of Grand Bay’s Very Busy And Growing Sister City Irvington, Ala. Sept. 29. The Irvington Ladies’ Library Association gave an ice cream social Saturday evening on […]
While browsing the Alabama State Archives, I have frequently run across some really interesting old photographs of Alabamians with absolutely no information about them. I always thought it was a shame that some family tried to save the photo for posterity by giving it to the Archives, but it is sad that we do not […]
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