(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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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