Wednesday, January 19, 2022

PATRON + Did you know that Alabama college women played baseball as early as 1904? See story for names...

 
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PATRON + Did you know that Alabama college women played baseball as early as 1904? See story for names

Photographs of women attending college at the beginning of the 20th century in Alabama usually reveal them dressed prim and proper in long dresses. Few pictures are seen of them playing sports. That is what made this photograph from Martha Ivey Blount of Naperville, Illinois of a 1904 women’s  baseball team from 1904 so interesting. She […]

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Check out our Alabama Biography books!

Mobile Alabama 1901  (Detroit Photography Co. Library of Congress) Check out our Biography books The biographies of Alabamians in the Ebooks are from many sources. Much of the information comes from books no longer in print. Many of the biographies include names and additional information on children and related family members. Click on individual books at […]

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Clarkson Covered Bridge, Cullman County – one of the longest covered bridges standing in the Deep South

The bridge was reopened March 24, 2015 Clarkson Covered Bridge Cullman County, Alabama Cullman County's historic Clarkson Covered Bridge turned 100 last year and is getting spruced up with the goal of attracting more tourists and local residents. This two span, Town truss bridge, crosses a deep gorge of Crooked Creek, is 270 ft. long and 12 […]

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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: William Hayne Parks was born January 18, 1834

This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII in EBook, Paperback & Hardcover format WILLIAM HAYNE PARKS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1834-aft. 1910) Pike County, and Montgomery County, Alabama Hon. William Hayne Parks, was born January 18, 1834 in Mecklenberg County, N. C., the son of William […]

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