Did you know that when the capital of Alabama was moved to Montgomery in 1847, the building burned to the ground only two years later? The second session of the legislature met November 12, 1849. It had been in session one month and two days, when on December 14, the capitol building was discovered to […]
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. This is a transcribed, unedited, story from a WPA […]
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