Digital Alabama (/series/alabama-archives-and-history)
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.
As originally constituted, Baldwin County lay wholly west of the Tombigbee River, east of the Mississippi line, north of the 31st parallel, and south of the fifth township line, including all the country south of that line in the present Clarke County.
From the Tennessee line down to the Gulf, there was not a community, however remote it might be, that did not respond to the call for labor, money or membership, and when the Armistice was signed in 1918, nearly 150,000 Alabamians wore the emblem of the Red Cross.
Government post and military reservation for the repairing and manufacture of parts for airships.