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Southern History

Resources for searching your family tree with Southern heritage.
TimePiece: Historic Drama for Burritt Museum in Huntsville
A one-of-a-kind play that was written especially for Burritt on the Mountain and uses the historic park and Baptist Church as unique settings.
Huntsville History Festival Celebrates the City's Past
The Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society celebrated its 50th Anniversary by hosting a one-time event that incorporated a lot of Huntsville's past in different venues.
Book Review: An Alabama School Girl Goes to Paris
Local author Nancy Rohr has added notes and documentation to the original letters of Mary Fenwick Lewis to her family during her school days in Paris. Step back in time and relive the early days.
Huntsville Then and Now
This is a wonderful book full of historic and present day photos of Huntsville. Photography buffs will be intrigued with the way this book was made and the history Fred B. Simpson has preserved.
The Nina, a Floating Museum, Sails into Guntersville
We all grew up learning about the three ships that were a part of the most famous voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
Interesting history of plantations in Alabama from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War.
Heritage of the South
Legends and pictures on the history of the South, including Indian Creek History, the Southwest frontier, the French Colonials, and marriages of Alabama.
Legal Land Descriptions
Definitions of terms used in the Township and Range System in the Southern United States.
National Personnel Center
Repository of millions of military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century.
Official Land Patent Records Site
Database search for two million Federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.

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