Tuesday, May 10, 2022

“Many settlers traveled by foot, on wagons, and on flatboats to Alabama”...

 
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"Many settlers traveled by foot, on wagons, and on flatboats to Alabama"

Some settlers’ adventures in the wilderness of the soon-to-be the State of Alabama have been lost to time. Some of them have been found and preserved in the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement Book 2 by Donna R. Causey marks the early days of European settlement in Alabama.

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PATRON + Mobile, Alabama And Louisiana Territory Almost Became An Independent Republic

This story is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS – Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS – Volume I – IV: Four Volumes in One (Volume 1- Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of the first Mardi Gras in America. [See the story: Have you ever heard of Massacre Island in Mobile, […]

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Do you know anyone in these unidentified pictures from around the 1890s in Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama?

Do you have information about these image? Click here to email Alabama Department of Archives and History: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image. Four children in the yard of a house in Montevallo, Alabama ca. 1890 Q40174 One of the children is seated in a toy stroller Group […]

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PATRON – Excerpts from a diary by Thomas M. Fancher, Bibb County, Alabama – from 1871 – 1889

(This diary excerpt was transcribed for the 1st edition of THE CAHABA JOURNAL (Bibb County, Alabama)  THOMAS M. FANCHER DIARY Through the pages of the Thomas M. Fancher diaries a unique glimpse of late 19th century Bibb County emerges. He was first of all a family man then a farmer, part-time ore and lime contractor […]

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