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Down the Alabama River – Day Nine on August 19, 1814...

 
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Down the Alabama River – Day Nine on August 19, 1814

Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day Nine on August 19, 1814 (Continued) An amazing journal helps us visualize this historic journey down the Alabama River on August 19, 1814 Day Nine Scroll down to read story  Over the next few days, we will follow the day by day journey of the first survey of the […]

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PATRON – Names of Political Candidates & Obituary of George W. Currin in Macon, AL, in 1845

(Transcribed from The Macon Banner, Macon, Clarke County, Alabama April 24, 1845) CANDIDATES We are authorised to announce DR. ROBERT BURNS, as a candidate for a seat in the State Legislature at the ensuing august election. We are authorised to announce STEPHEN M. GILMORE, as a candidate for Sheriff of Clarke County at the ensuing […]

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Now he's the one can tell you about Dictators and Democrats

(Works Progress Administration interview from 1938 – transcribed exactly as written – including misspelled words, etc.) JIM HOLBACK Dangerous Democrat Tuscaloosa, Alabama by WPA writer R. D. Lucky October 17, 1938 The thing that seemed to worry Jim Holback most right now was his fifth-grade education. “I wish you’d of happened along by here yesterday”, […]

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