Tuesday, May 4, 2021

PATRON + The mystery of Hal’s Lake – Clarke County, Alabama – how it got its name...

 
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PATRON + The mystery of Hal's Lake – Clarke County, Alabama – how it got its name

There has been a mystery how Hal’s Lake in Clarke County got its name. The mystery of Hal's Lake Clarke County, Alabama Believed to be written by WPA Alabama writer Mary A. Poole 1939 During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and […]

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PATRON – Touring Alabama in 1820, 1821 – Letters written home by Adam Hodgson

Touring Alabama in 1820, 18211 Written ca. 1820 by Adam Hodgson In the course of the year 1820, and the spring of 1821, I made an extensive tour through Upper and Lower Canada and the United States of America, traversing the latter through Maine and Louisiana, through Alabama, and back again through the States of […]

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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – University of Alabama was burned a week before the end of the War Between the States – [see story and pics]

Southern Cadets in Action (This letter has been transcribed from The Century 1890 – Volume 39 – Harvard College Magazine Monthly) In his sketch of” The West Point of the Confederacy,” published in The Century Magazine for January, 1889, Mr. John S. Wise says: “At a later period of the war it [the Virginia Military […]

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Sometimes biographical information is hidden deep in old books

Sometimes biographical information about people in Alabama can be found in the strangest places. Many books are out-of-print so we are gathering information we find about individuals and publishing them in a series of books. BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE AND NOT-SO-NOTABLE: Volume VI is the sixth volume of a set of Biographies on Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers […]

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