Known as Slagheap Village, the official name was the Cahaba Project in Trussville, Alabama. It was a WPA housing project built on “slagheap” land vacated by the old Trussville Iron Furnace, thus the name Slagheap Village. Slag being used in Slagheap houses by photographer Arthur Rothstein Feb. 1937 Originally planned by the WPA to be […]
The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable & Not-so-Notable : Alabama Pioneers Volume V come from many sources. A good deal of the information comes from source books written when the subjects were still living. Did you know that you can read Ebooks on computers and smart phones with FREE APPS from Amazon. […]
A Certain Straw Hat Stories to Tell By Jean Butterworth As I reflected on the Alabama stories that Clarke Stallworth told in a recent meeting, I recalled a certain straw hat laying dusty on the top shelf of my basement storage, (my friends say I never throw anything away). What tales it could tell. Wore […]
EUFAULA, ALABAMA BLOW GUNS, GREEN CORN DANCE *NOTICE: The comments made in this article may be offensive to some today but it was transcribed from a book exactly as written in 1875 so please consider the time it was written (Transcribed from: History of Eufaula, Alabama: the bluff city of the Chattahoochee By J. A. […]
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