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Digital Alabama brings you stories from Alabama’s past as we dig into the records archived at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. These records have been preserved for over a century and Digital Alabama seeks out particularly interesting tidbits of information for your reading enjoyment.
All Alabamaians owe a great deal of gratitude to the chroniclers and travelers of Alabama’s past from which we inheritied an expanse of knowledge of our history. These writiers include, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Albert James Pickett, Mary Morgan Keipp, Maria Howard Weeden, William Bartram, Albert Samuel Gatschet, James Mooney and many others.
This story is not fiction. It is an amazing account of an episode in connection with the naval battle in Mobile bay, on August 5 1864, when the monitor Tecumseh was sunk in action. The names in the story, as told by Rear Admiral Goodrich, are real, and with the historic facts set forth are in the records of the great Civil war.
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Story of the Sinking of the Alabama The Famous Confederate States Cruiser Excerpt from an Interview With Captain John McIntosh
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Conecuh County Alabama in the Earliest Times; Derivation of Its Name; Original Appearance; Abounding Game; Ferocious Beasts; Early Battle Scene, etc.
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REMARKABLE CANOE FIGHT–BATTLE OF HOLY GROUND– MARCH TO CAHABA OLD TOWNS
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Battles of Emucfau, Enitachopco and Calbec
Continue readingAlbert James Pickett uses the preface of his book to relate the efforts undertaken to acquire information for the book.
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Pickett describes the similarities and differences f various tribes he contacts. He tells of American Indian dress, culture and customs.
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De Soto in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
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Alabama had counties that are no longer in existence.
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Bart Thrasher, the notorious Bibb county outlaw, who, with six other convicts, recently broke out of the Pratt mine’s penitentiary and, overpowering the guards, escaped, turned up at Horse Creek with an unknown pal, and had a night of robbing and murdering.
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A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.
Continue readingThe Rev. I. Q. Melton from Blount County Alabama News from November 13, 1890
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Counterfeiters Judged A Secret Service Official Runs In Some Shovers Of The Q–r. Montgomery. Advertiser Calera, Alabama May 3, 1887
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Hanged By A Mob In the 1890s, Choctaw County received national media attention for what became known as the Sims
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Sheriff Pat Garrett, Patrick Floyd Jarvis “Pat” Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
Continue readingAlabama Was The First State To Declare Christmas A Legal Holiday First State To Recognize Christmas In 1836, Alabama became
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Murder To Aid A Murder Bibb County Alabama Randolph Alabama Centeville Alabama January 15, 1891 Transcribed From Vernon Courier, Lamar
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A Dose Of “Blue Pills” Administered From The Muzzle Of A Good Shot Gun September 30, 1875 Transcribed From Birmingham
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