Blogs about: Colbert County Alabama

This is a 1930s photo of the WMSD radio station tower located in Sheffield, Colbert County, Alabama.1 comment

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Sheffield, Sheffield Alabama, WMSD Radio Station

Sometimes you just happen across history...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 4 months ago: as is the case with this posting by a 1964 graduate of Colbert County High School, Wayne Austin. I j … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, Hatton School, Austin, Betty McGregor, Billy Chaney, Cathy Ledlow, Eileen Streit

Does anyone recognize exactly where in Florence, Alabama...1 comment

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 5 months ago: this photo may have been taken? This is William Roscoe McDougal, son of Annie Mae Hand and William C … more →

Tags: Florence, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Sledge, Carolyn Murray Greer, hand, Mamie Hand Sledge, Florence, Alabama, William Riley Hand

Do you ever wonder what the military men of the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 5 months ago: think of what is going on in America today? The Shoals area abounds with men and women who have answ … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Military Service Men and Women, cherokee, Carolyn Murray Greer, Woodis, Cherokee Alabama, World War I, Thomas Franklin Woodis

The Shoals area is rich...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 6 months ago: in history. Quite a few influential people were born, or lived in the Shoals area. Among them were t … more →

Tags: Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, Carl Rand, antebellum tools

The history of Mountain Mills...1 comment

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 6 months ago: By Lewis C. Gibbs, Jr. Around 1835, after the Indians were moving to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, t … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, cherokee, Carolyn Murray Greer, Mountain Mills, Hugh Barton, mountain mill, James H. Simpson, rutland

Colbert County history as reported by Captain Arthur Keller...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 6 months ago: as it pertains to Tuscumbia, Alabama in the year 1888. BY CAPT. A. H. KELLER This is one of the olde … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, Captain Arthur H Keller, Tuscumbia, Michael Dickson

Photos from the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: from one of my family lines that after a point in time is so mysterious; the Vandiver family. This p … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, Vandiver, John Robert Vandiver, Nellie Ann Vandiver

Another Alabama girl kicks cancer's butt...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: with time to spare. Here is Leanna Reed Clemmons’ story on her breast cancer survival and her … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Cancer, Carolyn Murray Greer, CLEMMONS, Muscle Shoals, breast cancer, Leanna Reed Clemmons, Jordan Clemmons

Photos from the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: are to be treasured. This one is of Rubye D Freeman. Rubye is posed by the No Pass Way sign during t … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, TVA, Rubye D Freeman, 1934

Photos from the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: of the many of the Garrett family of Colbert County, Alabama. This photo is taken at RoundTop School … more →

Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Garrett, Remembering the Shoals, Charles Jackson Garrett, Riley Bond Garrett

Photos from the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: from Roundtop School in the early 1900s. The two students named in the photo are Riley Bond Garrett … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Lawrence County, Carolyn Murray Greer, Garrett, Lawrence County Alabama, Roundtop School, Riley Bond Garrett, Charles Jackson Garrett

Photos of the past...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: of relatives  are precious. This one is related to people from Colbert County, Alabama. The soldier … more →

Tags: Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Sledge, Carolyn Murray Greer, Texas, Clarence Williamson Sledge, Sam Manford Sledge

Amos Brenneman, World War I Soldier, Letter Two...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 8 months ago: from Montgomery, Alabama. Amos D. Brenneman served in Company C, 167th U.S. Infantry, served oversea … more →

Tags: Sheffield, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, brenneman, World War I, Amos Brenneman

Postcards from the edge...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 9 months ago: well, not really postcards, but letters from the past. And the Shoals area has a past very saturated … more →

Tags: Sheffield, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, brenneman, World War I, Amos Brenneman

Out N' About with a friend7 comments

corinthrose wrote 9 months ago:  F-U-N.  F-O-O-D. F-R-I-E-N-D-S-H-I-P.  P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. Autumn 2011.  One tank of gas.  Day t … more →

Tags: Photography, Travel, Mississippi, Corinth Mississippi., Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, tuscumbia alabama, Ivy Green, Helen Keller's Birthplace, shoe trees

The cultural landscape of the southern plantations...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 10 months ago: documents plantation homes in the south. There are photos included of former slaves. The Big House w … more →

Tags: Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Remembering the Shoals, Towns, tuscumbia alabama, Carolyn Murray Greer, William Henry Towns, Slave

I wonder aloud as to how much history has been forgotten...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 10 months ago: about my hometown area – the Shoals area. In 1976 the American Chemist Society erected the his … more →

Tags: Sheffield, Remembering the Shoals, Carolyn Murray Greer, W A Threadgill Primary School, Furnace Hill, Pig Iron Production, Sheffield Alabama, blast furnaces, Hattie Ensley Blast Furnace

You are not poor because someone else is wealthy...

Carolyn Murray Greer wrote 11 months ago: is an excellent summation of a lady and her life that I hold dear in my memory; and it is as àpropos … more →

Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Misery Index, myhand, Remembering the Shoals, american dream, Lena Mae Myhan, Lon Marlar, Sheffield Alabama


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