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PATRON + “When gold was discovered on Cherokee land, the white man pressured them to sell and move west”...

 
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PATRON + "When gold was discovered on Cherokee land, the white man pressured them to sell and move west"

(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Cherokee Indians, once a powerful nation inhabiting the fine country from the Ohio to the Tennessee River, had dwindled to a small but intelligent tribe which had encroached on the territory of the upper Creeks until they had gained possession of a large-scale part of north Georgia. […]

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Are any of these men your ancestor?

BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE & SOME NOT-SO-NOTABLE ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME VII is the seventh book of Alabama pioneers biographies.  A good deal of the information comes from source books written when the subjects were still living. Additional information and/or documentation on any of the subjects has been included at the end of each biography. The biographies included in Volume […]

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Did you know the ghost town of Old St. Stephens, Alabama had a Lover's leap?

Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens PART V – Lover’s leap (continued) PART V (Read at the Centennial Celebration, May 6, 1899. It was published in four installments in the Washington County News, St. Stephens, May 25, and June 1, 8, and 15, 1899.) By Miss Mary Welsh,2 of Shuqualak, Missi TAILORS As may be supposed, […]

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PATRON – Local deaths and sickness in Twin and Glen Allen news on April 2, 1897

(Transcribed from The Gazette-Appeal, Guin, Alabama, April 2, 1897) NOTICE I have now gotten my new Grist mill in fine working order. I am prepared to do all your grinding and will make you good meal. I use the celebrated Blalock rocks. Bring me your grinding. Will grind Tuesdays and Saturdays. JOHN T. CARPENTER, Guin, […]

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