PATRON + First American ship ever sunk by a submarine was built in Mobile, Alabama On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine Hunley sunk the Union ship, Housatonic in the harbor of Charleston. A survivor, W. A. Alexander, of one of the crew of the Hunley, told the story of the beginning and end of […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Sheffield, Alabama has a historic village laid out in the form of the Liberty Bell [films & pics] WWI need for nitrates During 1916 as the United States was drawing closer to involvement in the war in Europe, it became apparent to the Congress and the War Department that unrestricted German […]
PATRON – Political parties were organized in Greensboro, Alabama in May 1843. Here are some of the people who formed them. (Transcribed from Alabama Beacon, Greensboro, Alabama, May 20, 1843) We notice in the Wetumpka, Argus that Hon. Dixon Hall, Esq. late Senator from Autauga, is a candidate for Congress from the district in which […]
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