In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the Southern United States. Tracy W. Pratt, a Huntsville businessman who owned the West Huntsville Cotton Mill convinced the company to choose a site southwest of Huntsville. (continued below ) Mill on […]
The Indian Legend of Natural Bridge, Winston County, Alabama by G. Samek During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could be recorded The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to […]
(Transcribed from The Hamilton Appeal, Hamilton, Alabama January 17, 1896) LOCAL PERSONAL NEWS Mr. James Bostic, of Goldmine, was in town last Tuesday. Deputy Collector W. H. Cole, of Birmingham, was in town yesterday. Mr. I. A. Emerson, of Bull Mountain was on our streets the first of the week. Mr. J. W. Brock, a […]
(Transcribed from The Haleyville Journal Alabama June 9, 1914 REMAINS OF MRS. RAY INTERRED The remains of Mrs. W. M. Ray who died in El Paso, Texas, last Thursday, was brought to her old home, Haleyville for interment last Monday, arriving here about noon. The funeral services, conducted by Rev. N. H. Abernethy, at the […]
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