[Many people in the Sylacauga area around the time of WWII can probably relate to this story.] As told to Donna R. Causey by Pearl Mims February, 2014 The first job I every had was at the cotton mill in Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama when I was only seventeen. My sister Evelyn and I got jobs […]
History of the 44th Alabama Regiment written by a member of the regiment in 1898. SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY FORTY-FOURTH ALABAMA REGIMENT By James Jackson Garrett,1 of Birmingham Written in 1898 (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) This regiment was organized at Selma, Ala., in March, 1862. Its field […]
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Note: The city of Marion was first named Muckle's Ridge, but was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” hero of the American Revolution. Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married to a local girl in 1840 and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, was born in Perry County. She attended the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Many […]
This is a beautiful State Park south of Birmingham and a wonderful place for a picnic or outing. They have saved and restored many old homes that can now be rented for lodges and camping. The Boom Town of Brierfield (Brierfield is now a Historic State Park) Brierfield, Alabama was once a booming mining town, on […]
Zebulon Butler, an early settler of the Valley Creek Community in Selma, Alabama built a mill on the swift-rushing waters of Valley Creek to ground meal, grits and corn. The mill was acquired by the Colonel Thomas Kenan and his wife Mary Rand, in the 1830s. The Kenan family continuously owned by the mill until […]
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