The “city” of Birmingham was incorporated by the legislature, December 19, 1871. Birmingham was founded in July 1871, through the merger of three pre-existing farms towns by an association of business men and financiers, of whom Josiah Morris, of Montgomery, was the leader. The site selected was near the village of Elyton and at the point […]
Dogs the Wheeler family has loved have a strange list of names. First was Trigonometry, a math hound; Lady, a black dachshund named for the movie, Goodbye, My Lady. Then there was Raggmopp for the fun song R-A-G-G-M-O-P-P. Hobo wandered away and along came Sir, a beagle whose name came from another movie, To Sir, with Love. […]
Elyton in Jefferson County, Alabama was the location of many early settlers of Jefferson County. This story reveals some of the earliest residents. (Please note – This has been transcribed from Chapter Two of- Jefferson County and Birmingham History 1887 by Teeple & Smith Publishers – language used is from that era) After several years’ residence there, […]
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