The official beginning of the old Cahaba District in Alabama in 1818...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward The official beginning of the old Cahaba District in Alabama in 1818 Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 (Transcribed from the Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi – September 10, 1818) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS, by an act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1815, entitled, “an act to provide for the ascertaining and surveying of the boundary lines fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and […] Read more → PATRON + Do you know who started the first pecan grove in Alabama? Here is the answer Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST Bellefonte – 1st county seat of Jackson County now only a ghost town Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, near the site of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station. It is located roughly two miles southeast of Hollywood, Alabama. Private vs Public Lands The origin of Bellefonte and how it became the county seat of Jackson County, Alabama is related to the circumstances surrounding […] Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST Professor Darby of Auburn invented a machine to study air quality in 1859 Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 Prior to the 1880s many physicians believed that diseases such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death were caused by a miasma or a noxious gas (Continued below) DARBY’S AIR CONTRIVANCE THE MIASMOMETER Transcription of a story that was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02, Summer Issue 1956 We have just […] Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST Nobles brothers built the first locomotive south of the Mason and Dixon line Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 A WAR TIME FOUNDRY A Story of a Confederate Foundry at the present Anniston By Kate Quintard Noble Roberts1 My Grandfather, James Noble, left England in 1837 and settled first in Pennsylvania, but wearying of the unfriendly climate, he became enamored of the Sunny South, and with his family, made his home in Rome, Georgia, […] Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST -Aaron Burr hid in Dismals Canyon in Franklin County, Alabama after killing political rival Alexander Hamilton [pictures] Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 October, 2022 Dismals Canyon is located in the town of Phil Campbell in the northwestern part of Franklin County, Alabama. Several outlaws have allegedly hidden in the canyon, including Jesse James and  Aaron Burr. Continued below…. In 1806, former vice president  Aaron Burr hid for two weeks in Dismals Canyon after killing political rival Alexander Hamilton in a […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Moundville Archaeological Park – a true treasure in Alabama...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Moundville Archaeological Park – a true treasure in Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 October, 2022 Moundville Archaeological Park – a true treasure in Alabama Few sections in the Southern States can equal the wealth of evidence of Native American culture revealed in Moundville, Alabama. Other mounds are found scattered throughout Hale and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama, but they cannot compare with those along the Warrior River. A palisade was built around […] Read more → PATRON + Personal experience story by Crawford M. Jackson, Alabama Confederate veteran Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (M – W counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1867 Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY – Rice and Onions – 1887 Recipe Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Vine And Olive Colony – Fact & Fiction about their lives in Alabama...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Vine And Olive Colony – Fact & Fiction about their lives in Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants  Vine And Olive Colony – Fact & Fiction In 1817, a romantic tale involves a group of people who settled at the confluence of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers in present-day Alabama. The story as related by many Alabama historians states that […] Read more → UPDATED – Berry, Alabama owes its existence to the railroad – Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 Each year the city of Berry, Alabama has a Heritage Festival in the spring when the downtown area is buzzing with fun activities. Berry is a town in the southeastern part of Fayette County, Alabama about 15 miles east of Fayette, the county seat. Robert Berry, Sr. was a Revolutionary War Soldier and many of his sons settled […] Read more → PATRON + Native Americans Were Deceived By British Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → Names from a settlement of German farmers in Washington County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 Was there ever a settlement of German farmers in Washington County, Alabama? I discovered the following news articles in an 1891 newspaper about a German colony being organized in Washington County, Alabama, but the trail went dead. I wonder if this dream ever materialized. COLONIZING ALABAMA Times Daily September 12, 1891, Florence, Alabama One Thousand […] Read more → PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (D – L counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1867 Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → On October 27, 1913, the first newsreel film footage taken in the state of Alabama was possibly made Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 WE FOUND AN AMAZING NEWSREEL! Arguably,  we discovered the first newsreel of film footage taken in the state of Alabama. This long-lost, over 100-year-old, film footage is of President Woodrow Wilson’s visit to Mobile. His speech in Mobile changed history This treasure was made on October 27, 1913, in Mobile, Alabama, and is of great […] Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST The Birmingham Zoo & Botanical Gardens sits on top of over 4700 graves Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 The land beneath homes and shopping centers in the community of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, Alabama includes many historic sites, including a Revolutionary War soldiers farm and 4700 graves. The area has been inhabited since the 1820s. Originally, the area was known as Watkins Branch. After this story was published on Alabama Pioneers WIAT TV News   investigated […] Read more → PATRON: The first speech given in the South by a sitting president which called for racial equality was given in Birmingham, Alabama in 1921. [vintage photographs] Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

PATRON + Death of Billy John in early Macon County...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + Death of Billy John in early Macon County Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → Learn how to become a Patron member and read all the stories! Posted by Donna R Causey on 24 October, 2022 Alabama Pioneers has more lost & forgotten stories to see. You may notice some stories with the word PATRON at the beginning. These are only accessible to our Patrons. You can quickly join Alabama Pioneers Patrons and see all the stories. Click the button below to learn how to join Alabama Pioneers Patrons! All Patron […] Read more → PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1872 Posted by Donna R Causey on 24 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → PATRON – Mobile County March 1840- Slaves listed as runaways in jail Posted by Donna R Causey on 24 October, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe