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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Alabama. Official Website Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Legislature. It was named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson. In a study of lynchings in the South from 1877 to 1950, Jefferson County is documented as having the highest number of lynchings of any county in...
Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company whose investors included cotton planters, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs. It sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North Alabama railroads including land formerly a part of the Benjamin P. Worthington Plantation. The first business at that crossroads was the trading post and country sto...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Auburn, Lee County , Alabama. Official Website History Auburn was incorporated on February 2, 1839, in what was then Macon County , covering an area of 2 square miles. By that time, Methodist and Baptist churches had been established, and a school had been built and had come into operation. In the mid-1840s, separate academies for...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macon County, Alabama. Official Website The historic tribes encountered by European explorers were the Creek Indians, descendants of the Mississippian culture. Macon County was established by December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek, following the US Congress' passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Creek were removed...
Barbour County was established on December 18, 1832, from former Muscogee homelands and a portion of Pike County. Between the years of 1763 and 1783 the area which is now Barbour County was part of the colony of British West Florida. After 1783 the region fell under the jurisdiction of the newly created United States of America. The Muscogee Creek Confederacy was removed to territory west of th...
Old Negro Cemetery Mobile County, Alabama, USA : African American Cemetery
Plateau Cemetery Also known as Africatown Graveyard, New Plateau Cemetery, Old Plateau Cemetery Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA The Plateau Cemetery is a historically important cemetery that has its beginnings with the history of the Last Slave Ship Clotilda (1860),and the establishment of the Africa Town community (known today as Africatown) by the survivors and their descendants. With...
Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.[9] Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. It is now the third most populous city in the state, after Huntsville and Birmingham, and is the 128th m...
Pioneers of Montgomery County, Alabama Due to the fact that Montgomery County,Alabama is one of the earliest Counties in Alabama 12/6/1816. Alabama became a state 12/14/1819. The 12/14/1819 date plus 40 years 1/1/1860. If you have Questions and Exceptions. Exceptions will be considered if the person is Historic Importance to the Community. Exceptions will be considered from Historic Society, C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Alabama. Official Website Montgomery County was established by dividing Monroe County on December 6, 1816, by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. It is named for Lemuel P. Montgomery, a young U.S. Army officer killed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the final battle of the Creek Indian war, which was waged co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Talladega County, Alabama. Official Website Talladega County was established on December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek Indians near the state's geographic center. The name Talladega is derived from a Muscogee (Creek) Native American word Tvlvteke, from the Creek tålwa, meaning "town", and åtigi, or "border" -- "Border Tow...
Home Aid Society Cemetery Burnsville, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
Pioneers of Butler County, Alabama Butler County was created on 12/13/1819 24 hours before Alabama was created on12/14/1819. Please use 12/14/1819 and if your relative was born before 12/14/1819 plus 40 years 1/1/1860 please add them. If you have Questions and Exceptions please contact Chris L.Mathews. Exceptions will be considered due to the person's importance to the community. Informatio...
Butler County was formed from Conecuh County, Alabama, and Monroe County, Alabama, by an act passed December 13, 1819, by the Legislature while in session at Huntsville. This was the first session of the Legislature of Alabama as a State. The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler. The preci...
Wikipedia This project is used to relate all units from Alabama who served in the Union Army.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Alabama. Official Website Jackson County was established on December 13, 1819, after the federal government arranged a treaty to remove the Cherokee from the area and extinguish their land claims. It was named for Andrew Jackson, general in the United States Army and afterward President of the United States of Ameri...
Pine Rest Cemetery Foley, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 231,767. The county seat is Bay Minette. The county is named after senator Abraham Baldwin, though he never lived in what is now Alabama. Baldwin...
Please add profiles for anyone who was born, lived, or died in Madison County, Alabama. Official Website Madison County was established on December 13, 1808 by the governor of the Mississippi Territory. The county is named in honor of James Madison , fourth President of the United States and the first President to visit the state of Alabama. It is recognized as the "birthplace" of Alabama, wh...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . Alabama (Listeni/ˌæləˈbæmə/) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 23rd-most populous of the 50 United States. At 1,300 miles (2,100 km), Alabam...
Moffetville Cemetery Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Edgemont Cemetery Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, USA
Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri. Its county seat was Jacksonville. Benton, a slave owner, was a political ally of Vice President John C. Calhoun , U.S. senator from South Carolina and also a slaveholder and planter. Through the 1820s-1840s, however, Benton's and Calhoun's political interests div...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Alabama. Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Alabama. Official Website In historic times, the county was primarily the territory of the Creek peoples, who became known to European-American settlers as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast. The county seat, Monroeville...
Conecuh County was established by Alabama on February 13, 1818. Some of its territory was taken in 1868 by the Republican state legislature during the Reconstruction era to establish Escambia County. Located in the coastal plain, 19th century Conecuh County was an area of plantations and cotton cultivation, and it is still quite rural today. Thousands of African American residents left in the 1...