OLD GREENSBORO FEMALE ACADEMY1 Published 1908 In December, 1839, a meeting was held in the Greensboro Lyceum (in Hale County, Alabama) by the subscribers to the building fund of the Greensboro Female Academy. For a long while prior to this time a female school had been conducted in the same lot on which the Academy […]
Journalistic Warfare: The Atlanta Constitution, the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Rube Burrow Interview by William Warren Rogers, Jr A sensational headline, “Rube Talks Constitution Man Tracks the Outlaw to His Lair,” dominated the Atlanta Constitution’s Sunday feature section on November 10, 1880. Habitual readers of the Constitution knew of Rube Burrow. The newspaper had given […]
ARRESTED A Probate Judge Arrested Under Requisition from the Governor of Texas, Charged with Stealing a Horse1 (From the Troy Enquirer 1880) Yesterday Mr. George Tiller, with a friend as guard, left this city for Elba (Alabama), armed with a requisition and the necessary papers to secure the arrest of C. W. Raley, alias B. […]
John Washington Mackey was an early pioneer of Perry County, Alabama is believed to have been the son of John G. and Mary Mackey of Buncombe County, NC. He was born Sep 21, 1822 in Alabama or NC and died Mar 19, 1888, in Jefferson County, Alabama. Don’t waste time and money completing genealogy research […]
THE BUFFALO BUG Transcribed from The Newton Messenger, Newton, Alabama, January 15, 1887 Corrosive sublimate is the only thing known which has any effect on that mysterious little round black buffalo, or carpet moth, which eats in straight lines, not only across carpets but dresses, silks, velvets, etc. When they are suspected, the floors and […]
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