Prior to becoming the Alabama Territory on August 15, 1817, the whole area of Alabama was an immense wilderness, with American trading-posts on the east upon the Oconee, and those of Spain upon the south and west, while it was uninhabited by whites as far as the distant Cumberland settlements on the north. Captain John […]
Founded in 1833, on a farm near Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama. The College was first opened in 1833 as a manual labor institution as a result of the feeling of the Baptists that they needed an institution for the training of indigent young men who felt called to the ministry. Hale County, Alabama Six dormitories were […]
(Transcribed excerpts from THE ALABAMA ENQUIRER (Hartselle, Morgan County, Alabama June 30, 1887) NOTICE! NOTICE! The State of Alabama} Montgomery Revenue Department} June the 7, 1887 You are hereby notified that Chas. A. Castle, of Somerville, Alabama, has this day made application of purchase the following described Lands assessed to John Brown, and sold as […]
The Ghosts of Dauphin Island When French explorers arrived in Mobile Bay and found sun-bleached bones stacked on an island, they didn’t realize that they had “disturbed a sacred Native American burial ground that is rumored to be watched over by supernatural specters at night. (See story: Have you ever heard of Massacre Island in Mobile, […]
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