The news in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 30, 1930 – included the following stories. SEARLES MAN DIES OF KNIFE WOUND IN HEART Dave Hudson, Brother-In-Law, Confesses To Slaying Oscar Hallman Oscar Hallman, 40, Searles, died early Sunday in a Birmingham hospital from a knife wound in the heart said to have been inflicted in a […]
This is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS – Volume I – IV: Four Volumes in One (Volume 1- The area of present-day Montgomery County, Alabama was once a wilderness inhabited by Indians and the few interesting characters in the early days […]
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) Mr. J. W. Hunnicut, merchant, capitalist, banker and farmer, proposes to experiment in the raising of hogs for the benefit of the farmers of the country. He says he has raised meat at five cents a pound and is thinking of renting a few acres […]
The Skyline Farms project, established by the federal government in Jackson County in 1934, was one of the more unique socioeconomic experiments in Alabama history. It provided a way for destitute families to pull themselves out of poverty after the Great Depression. Skyline Farms fell on hard times in the 1940s when cotton crops failed. […]
A few years ago, with many genealogical facts in hand, I made a research trip to the Eastern Shore of Virginia in search of a place my ancestors helped settle when they first arrived on America’s shores around 1638. At the time, the land on Old Plantation Creek was being developed as Bay Creek Golf Resort […]
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