Sunday, December 17, 2023

PATRON + A Christmas present was given to the University of Alabama on Dec. 25, 1824...

 
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PATRON + A Christmas present was given to the University of Alabama on Dec. 25, 1824

Evidently, there were trees being cut down and building items taken at the site where it was being built to invoke this Act. Steps to establishing the University of Alabama In 1818, the federal government authorized  the Alabama Territory to set aside a township for the establishment of a “seminary of learning.”  Alabama was officially admitted […]

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Gadsden – City of Champions was an exciting place Christmas of 1940- [vintage photos from Christmas 1940 & film]

The first substantial white settlement in what is now Gadsden was a village called “Double Springs”.This was begun by a mixed American Indian and Caucasian settler named John Riley when he built his house near two springs in about 1825. His home became a stagecoach stop on the Huntsville-to-Rome Georgia route. The home below was taken from its […]

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