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William Lindsey McDonald - Articles

Articles by William Lindsey McDonald, 1960 --
(McDonald Collection, Collier Library Archives & Special Collections)

(Number in parentheses indicates multiple versions of same title.)

  • 1810 Shopping Center at Florence, Alabama
  • 1836 Lauderdale Volunteers
  • 1918 Flu Epidemic at the Shoals
  • Abner Alloway Strange Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony (News Release)
  • Aboriginal Village of Coldwater
  • Adventures of Alex Hanna
  • Adventures of Veteran Bookworthy
  • Airways and Highways
  • Alabama's Federal Cavalry
  • Alba Wood's Rich History
  • Alexander Hamilton Wood - Florence's First Mayor
  • All the Christmases Yet to Be
  • Allen Family of Blue Water Creek
  • Ambush on Tick Island
  • Anecdote of the Officer's Party at Sweetwater
  • Ante-Bellum Alba Wood Plantation (2)
  • Apple Blossom Time
  • April and a Heart of Gold
  • April and the Showers
  • Area's Elder Men Joined Homespun Militia Force
  • Area Key to Stribling's Books
  • Area Once Home to Two Coffee Plantations
  • Area's Religious Influence Dates Back to Indians
  • Army Boasted of Union Flags in the Shoals
  • Art Beyond Magnolias and Pillared Porticoes
  • Art of Being Alone
  • Assassination of Colonel Cornyn
  • Assurance of May
  • Attorney Was at Center of a Feud Between Bluebloods
  • Auld Land Syne or Old Long Ago
  • Australian Mountain and an East Florence Hill
  • Autumn Day at Raccoon Branch
  • Baker has Deep Roots in Shoals
  • Baseball Comes with Spring
  • Baskets of Kindness
  • Batter Up!
  • Battle at the Peter's Place and Its Tragic Aftermath
  • Battle Fought at the Peters Plantation
  • Battle of the Blue Bloods and the Dueling Attorney
  • Battlefield at Happy Hollow
  • Battles Decisive in U.S. History
  • Bear
  • Bear Creek the Scene of Bloody Battle
  • Bear, the Hat and the Sugar Bowl
  • Beginnings and Evolution of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
  • Beginnings of Old Brick Presbyterian Church
  • Beginnings of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
  • Bentley, Gotcher Restore Cemetery
  • Best of Eating
  • Biffle Connections in Biffle Country
  • Billowing Clouds
  • Birth of Petersville, Underwood
  • Black Master (3)
  • Blockade Runner
  • Blockhouse on Coxe's Island and Its 20th Century Legacy (2)
  • Blooms, Bolls and Cotton Gins
  • Blue Hole on Cypress Creek
  • Boddie Plantation in the Colbert's Reserve
  • Bold Footprints
  • Books and Folk
  • Boy Who Went to War
  • Brandon School
  • Brave Blockade Runner Wore Skirts and a Bun
  • Brick Maker
  • Bridge Burner
  • Brief History of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama
  • Brief History of Florence, Alabama
  • Brief History of the Florence Harbor
  • Buck Key and His Yankee Guest
  • Builder of Wilson Dam
  • Builder Still One of the Wonders of Wilson Dam
  • Building Over Hallowed Grounds
  • Building the Bridge
  • Burning of Bridge Had Ironic Twist
  • Burtwell Was Runaway Bride With a Twist
  • Bushwhackers Raided Troops Who Rode with General Sherman
  • Butler was Unsung Hero of Frontier
  • Campbell's Ferry
  • Campus Remembered for Its Lovely Young Ladies
  • Campus Was Known for Its Pretty Ladies
  • Canal-Building Genius
  • Captain Rapier Made Florence Area Boom
  • Captain Richard Rapier: The Merchant Prince
  • Captain Slick's Company
  • Capture of an Outlaw in Early Florence
  • Capture of Murderer Led by Area Slave
  • Casey was an Unsung Heroine of Revolution
  • Cathedrals and Gardens
  • Caves Explored During 1800s
  • Celebrations for General Forrest  at Florence
  • Celebrations for General Forrest at Florence (Revised April 1997)
  • Celtic Kirk
  • Celts in the Tennessee Valley
  • Celts in the Valley
  • Cemetery is Landmark Full of Archives
  • Center Star and How It Got Its Name (includes newspaper article correction)
  • Center Star and How It Was Named
  • Center Star Historical Marker Unveiled
  • Central Heights, the New and the Old
  • Chaplain First Priest Killed in War
  • Charm of St. Joseph, Tennessee, and Its Historic Catholic Church
  • Charmed Life of General Joe Wheeler
  • Chickasaw Conference at Campbell's Ferry
  • Chickasaws Were Good Neighbors
  • Chief Bigfoot at the Shoals
  • Chief Bigfoot Slain in Lauderdale County 
  • Chief Glass
  • Chief Tuscumbia
  • Child Again on Christmas
  • Choctaws, Chickasaws Share Past
  • Christmas Conference
  • Christmas Gift from the Past
  • Christmas is Hope
  • Circular Road Unique Feature of Early Florence
  • Civil War Diary of the author of Little Rebel
  • Civil War Folk Hero
  • Civil War Story with a Happy Ending
  • Civil War Wedding (3 ; one copy with research notes)
  • Civil War Years at Florence and Lauderdale County
  • Coffee Dies as Honored Californian
  • Coffee Justly Called Father of Florence
  • Coffee Left Her Mark on Public Education
  • Coffee Was Benefactor Many Times
  • Coffee's Legacy Apparent
  • Coffee's Life Centered on Peace, Quiet with Family
  • Coffee's River Crossings Near Rogersville (2)
  • Cold Weather Days
  • Cold Winter's Night
  • Coliseum Site Served Both Armies
  • Colonel Andrew J. Coffee, Hero of Mexican War
  • Colonel Biffle a Legend of the Civil War
  • Colonel Jackson's Raid in Lauderdale County, April 11, 1864
  • Colonel James Jackson's Capture of the White Horse Company
  • Colonel James Jackson's Raid in Lauderdale County, April 11, 1864 (3)
  • Colonel Streight's Raid Across North Alabama
  • Colonel Who Was Called The Worst
  • Comrade Class
  • Confederate General Who Once Taught School in Florence
  • Confederate Headquarters at Lamb's Ferry
  • Confederate Hero in a Tuscumbia Churchyard
  • Confederate Veteran Shared Memories
  • Confederate Wife Braves Enemy Lines
  • Contributing Cultures of Ancient Peoples at the Muscle Shoals
  • Cornyn Set Fiery Example
  • Cotton Market Desk
  • Courageous Pioneer Lady
  • Course of the Tennessee River
  • Courtview Diary (2)
  • Coushattas to Return to Native River
  • Coxe's Dream Reflected in Stream, City Thoroughfare
  • Creek War - The Launching of Andrew Jackson as a National Hero
  • Cultures of Early Peoples at the Muscle Shoals
  • Dark Side of Court Street
  • Day of Infamy on Middle Cypress Creek
  • Day They Set Fire to the Mills (2)
  • Days of Our Life
  • December Brings Joy
  • Dedication of the French-Glover Marker
  • Deeds Serve as the Best Memorials
  • Deibert Park  A Place of Beauty and Legacy
  • Deibert Park Has Historic Background
  • Delightful Surprise
  • DePriest's Last Hog Drive in  Alabama
  • Desperate River Escape Adds to Civil War History
  • Determined Will and Conquering Faith
  • Diggin' Potatoes
  • Discovering the Name of an Unknown War Casualty
  • Disposition for Fun Led to Slaying of John Patton in Florence
  • Dodge Behind Many Raids in Shoals
  • Doorkeepers and Homecoming
  • Doublehead An Historical Link
  • Doublehead Became a Friend to White Man
  • Doublehead Becomes the White Man's Friend
  • Doublehead's Contested Estate
  • Doublehead's Friend
  • Dr. Bumpass was Father of Waterloo
  • Dr. E. B. Norton
  • Dr. Rice and UNA's Rice Hall
  • Dr. Richard Rivers and UNA's Rivers Hall
  • Drap Dumplings
  • Dutch Landing
  • E. L. Culver, One of Waterloo's Many Wonders
  • Earliest Settlers, The Indians, and The Federal Government
  • Early Beginnings of Center Star United Methodist Church
  • Early Beginnings of ECM
  • Early Beginnings of Weeden Heights
  • Early Beginnings of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church
  • Early Blooms Signal Time of Somber Silence
  • Early Days at Herman Springs
  • Early Development of Florence
  • Early Florence Cobbler
  • Early History of Lauderdale County (short version and long version with maps)
  • Early History of McFarland Bottom
  • Early History of Methodism in Lauderdale County
  • Early History of the Blackberry Trail Golf Course
  • Early Kinship Between Waterloo, Alabama, and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
  • Early Methodist Circuit Riders in North Alabama
  • Early October 1864 Skirmishes Near Florence (Part One)
  • Early October 1864 Skirmishes Near Florence (Part Two)
  • Early Perils of Navigating the Muscle Shoals
  • Early Religious Activities at the Shoals
  • Early Times Around Muscle Shoals City
  • ECM's Roots in Defense
  • Ed Blair, the Florence Constable
  • Education Crown of Rice's Life
  • Edward Asbury O'Neal, The Soldier (2)
  • Eliza Coffee Whose Name is Memorialized by a Hospital
  • Emmerson Rock Source of Legends
  • Enforcer Sought Refuge After Civil War
  • Engineering Mastermind Once Lived in Florence
  • Entrepreneur Began His Career of 72 Years by Digging Ditches
  • Euchees Who Lived at the Muscle Shoals in the Long Ago
  • Events Bring Two Generals to Same Camp
  • Evidence of McKinley's Presence is Hard to Find
  • Exploits of Hero Forgotten
  • Fahrenheit and Celsius
  • Falconnet and His Network of Spies
  • Fall Leads to Fortuitous Events
  • Family Cemetery Rediscovered, Restored by Corporate Owners
  • Famous Kennedy Long Rifle
  • Fatal Blow was Battle's Turning Point
  • Father of the Colberts
  • Father of Waterloo
  • Father, Son Murdered on Same Day
  • Ferry Site of Meeting With Chiefs
  • Ferry Was Slow But Dependable
  • Final, Immodest Message
  • Finding the Name of an Unknown Soldier
  • Fireflies and a Summer's Night
  • First Alabama Cavalry Unique
  • First United Methodist Church, Florence, Alabama - A Brief History 
  • Florence 175!
  • Florence a Strategic Town in Civil War
  • Florence Alabama
  • Florence An Early Cotton Mill Town
  • Florence Educated Yankee General, The
  • Florence Guards
  • Florence Had Shopping Center as Early as 1810
  • Florence Heroine and a Bible Verse
  • Florence Home to Veterans' Groups
  • Florence Long Remembered Hood Capture
  • Florence Mayor Surrenders Town
  • Florence, Nashville Shared Connections
  • Florence Wagon Works
  • Florence Was Early Cotton Mill Town
  • Florence Wesleyan University 1855 - 1872
  • Florence Wesleyan University's Famous Texan Alumnus
  • Florence's Benevolent Matron Whose Gifts Continue to Bless Others
  • Florence's Civil War Military Fort
  • Florence's First Businessman
  • Florence's First Mayor
  • Florence's Two Coffee Plantations
  • Florence's Unique Circular Road
  • Force of a Father's Love
  • Forks of Cypress
  • Fort Hampton (Part One and Part One, Revised July 2000) 
  • Fort Hampton (Part Two)
  • Fort was Both Feared, Welcomed
  • Foster Mansion (Courtview)
  • Founders Planned Well
  • Founders Saw Creek's Importance
  • Founding of Waterloo
  • Four More Months to Live
  • From Your Pastor
  • Front Porch
  • Frontier Hero was Alumnus of University at Florence
  • Frontier Years in Florence
  • Garden Hoe
  • Gardens and Light Thoughts
  • General and the Altar 
  • General and the Altar at Church
  • General Brantley and the Cold Waters of Shoal Creek
  • General Coffee Deserved a Higher Niche in History
  • General Coffee Led a March for Battle of New Orleans
  • General Coffee was Covered with Glory
  • General Dodge and the 1863 Raids
  • General Edward A. O'Neal
  • General James Deshler of Tuscumbia
  • General John Brahan of Lauderdale County, Alabama
  • General John Coffee -- Father of Florence
  • General Roddey's Boy Postman
  • General Sterling Alexander Martin Wood
  • General's Camp Man
  • Gentle Lady of Mars Hill
  • George Colbert and His Tennessee River Ferry (3)
  • George Colbert's Ferry (2)
  • Getting an Early Start
  • Glad Day
  • Glass Kept Cherokee Claims Safe
  • Glencoe Plantation and Cemetery
  • Going Away.
  • Gold Star Mother Visits Her Son's Grave (2)
  • Golf Course Site of Many Historic Events
  • Good Friend and Neighbor
  • Good Yankee
  • Governor Robert Miller Patton of Lauderdale County, Alabama
  • Graduation Time is Here.
  • Grave at Forks of Cypress Cemetery Receives Civil War Monument
  • Grave of a Patriot's Widow
  • Great Highway to Florence
  • Green Hill
  • Green Hill (note list)
  • Green Hill and the Long Rifle
  • Green Hill Mill Once Busy Village
  • Green Hill's Golden Era of Gun Shops
  • Gruesome Murders Near LaGrange
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Gunmakers Prominent in Local History
  • Handmade Desk Has Storied Past
  • Hang in There Through the Coming Year
  • Hanna Lived Adventurous Life
  • Happy Birthday, America!
  • Happy Hollow Important to Shoals History
  • Hard Month
  • Hauling Logs
  • He Went Consenting
  • Helen Keller's Father Captain Arthur Henley Keller, C.S.A.
  • Henry Nixon Commanded with Honor
  • Heroic Actions of Polly Allen Saved Her Cabin
  • Hickory Hill Helped Fulfill a Dream for General Coffee
  • Historic Indians of Alabama and the Muscle Shoals
  • Historical Novel Could be Written on Old Pap
  • Historical Synopsis - The Muscle Shoals Area (2)
  • History of Family Vital to Shoals
  • History of Lagrange Tabernacle Campground
  • History of the First United Methodist Church, Florence, Alabama
  • History of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
  • History of Wildwood Park
  • Hog Driving in Alabama
  • Holiday Story With an Unsolved Mystery
  • Holiday Tale has Tragic Conclusion
  • Home for Christmas (2)
  • Home of General John Coffee at Hickory Hill
  • Homestead Has Long Family History
  • Honor at Shiloh Returns to Sweetwater
  • Hood's Military Operations at Florence  in 1864 (earliest dated article) 
  • Hood's Remnant Crossed River at Bainbridge Site
  • Hood's Silent Redoubt at Old South Florence (2)
  • Hood's Sixteen Days at Muscle Shoals Proved Costly
  • Hood's Two River Crossings at the Muscle Shoals (Three-part series)
  • Horse Swapper and Horn Blower
  • Hospital's Name Tribute to Coffee
  • Hough Road Originally an Indian Trail
  • House that Jack Built
  • House that Jack (Phillips) Built
  • Howell Street and a Confederate Veteran
  • Hurst was a One-Man Reign of Terror
  • Identities Now Known
  • Identity of the Misplaced Portrait
  • Immigrant's Story of Success
  • In Dad's House
  • Incident at Bridge Could be Reason for Its Nickname
  • Indian Fight at Bear Creek
  • Indians and the Tennessee The Singing Princess
  • Inn at Cypress Inn
  • Intriguing Civil War Story
  • Irish Factor in Early Florence
  • Island Once Owned By Governor
  • It Came to Pass
  • It Took 130 Years to Solve this Mystery
  • It Was Big News When the Factory's Whistles Blew 
  • It Was Big News When the Whistles Blew 
  • It's Becoming Stylish to Grow Your Own Vegetables
  • It's Time to Fly a Kite
  • Jack Lindsey Mystery Has Been Resolved
  • Jacobs Put ECM Plan in Action
  • James Bradley Price Cemetery Being Restored
  • James Jackson, Samuel Ives: Shoals Legends
  • Jane Irons Managed Highly Successful Plantation
  • Janitor Earned Respect of Professors, Students
  • Jewish Merchant Who Helped Rescue a Christian Church
  • Jim Sledge, La Grange's Legendary Janitor
  • John Gregg the Confederate Hero From LaGrange College
  • John Simpson, Early Merchant and Planter (2)
  • John Walter Rand and His Leighton Gristmill
  • Johnsons May Have Been First in Florence
  • Joiner Line Began During Depression
  • Joiner Transit Company - A Story of Success
  • Journal Recounts Jones' Trip to Shoals
  • Joy of December.Only a Few More Days Away
  • Judge's Mansion on the River (2)
  • July is Always Welcomed
  • Kimbrough Crossroads
  • Kindergarten Can Thank Miss Lulie
  • Kirk's Style of Fighting was Unusual
  • Knowledge of May
  • Knowledge of River Led to Captain's Death
  • Lakes Have Been Well Populated
  • Lanes of Lane Spring
  • Larimore Home at Mars Hill
  • Larimore Played Role as Confederate Scout
  • Larimore's Legacy Includes School, Home
  • Larimore's Role as a Confederate Scout
  • Late Summer
  • Lauderdale County Named After Proud Tennessee Military Family
  • Lauderdale County Named for War of 1812 Hero
  • Lauderdale County Older Than Alabama
  • Lauderdale County's Link with the Revolutionary War
  • Lauderdale County's Pioneer Hough Family
  • Lauderdale Site of Deadly Doublehead Skirmish
  • Legacy of Gabe Butler
  • Legacy of Hough Road
  • Legacy of the David Kennedy Rifle
  • Legend of Andrew Jackson and Craig's Inn
  • Legend of Andrew Jackson at Craig's Inn
  • Legend of Captain Bert Hayes
  • Legend of Captain Slick's Company
  • Legend of Emmerson Rock
  • Legend of Lt. Elias Thrasher
  • Legend of Manbone Cave
  • Legend of Manbone Cave Still a Mystery
  • Legend of Old John Melton
  • Legend of Uncle Tom Brannon and the Capture of John A. Murrel
  • Legendary Colonel Richard Orric Pickett
  • Legendary First Settlers of Florence
  • Legends and Log Houses
  • Legends of Caves Filled with Treasures
  • Legends of Happy Hollow
  • Legends of Treasure Caves (includes copy of resource article)
  • Lexington Resident was a True Hero
  • Life and Times of Mary Nichols Evans
  • Life in the Muscle Shoals Wilderness
  • Life in the Wilderness at the Shoals
  • Life Lived for Others
  • Light Duty Ended with Ambush on Tick Island
  • Little George, the Mountain and Me
  • Little Lower Than Angels
  • Little Rebel and the Colonel
  • Local Civil War Veterans Organizations
  • Local Legend Preserves Story of Singing River
  • Local Memorial Day Story
  • Local Roots of Former Secretary of State Baker
  • Local Seaman Among Thousands Honored
  • Locals Referred to Hamilton as Good Yankee
  • Log Cabins at the Shoals
  • Log Cabins in the Shoals Area
  • Log From the Legendary Home of Cherokee Chief Doublehead
  • Long But Brief Look at Our Muscle Shoals Area
  • Long Rifles Link Area to Revolution
  • Look Back: The Old Railroad Bridge
  • Lore of Chief Doublehead and His Home at Muscle Shoals
  • Lore of Doublehead and His Home at Muscle Shoals (2)
  • Lore of Happy Hollow
  • Lore of Life at Sweetwater (2)
  • Lore of Muscle Shoals and Its Heritage
  • Lore of the Indian Language
  • Lore of the Muscle Shoals and its Early Indian Heritage
  • Love Stories, Old Graves, and Noble People (3)
  • Love Story Among Old Graves
  • Lover of Fine Horses (The Saga of Nelson McCuan of Cairo in Limestone County) (2)
  • Lumber, Brick Used in Early Town Structures
  • Malcolm Gilchrist and the Midas Touch
  • Man Buried Under Tennessee Street
  • Mansion of the Hill
  • March and My Half Acre
  • March Freshet of 1902
  • Maud Lindsay Free Kindergarten Has Roots in Old Boddie Plantation
  • Maud Lindsay Kindergarten
  • Maxwell Hill Opens Part of City to Industry
  • McFarland Bottom Part of City's Past
  • McKinley Arrived at Height of His Dreams
  • McKinley had a Wide Variety of Investments, Land Interests
  • McKinley Rose to High Position in Washington
  • Melton's Bluff - Andrew Jackson's Cotton Plantation at the Muscle Shoals (2)
  • Melton's Bluff - Named for the Feared Muscle Shoals Pirate (3)
  • Melton's Bluff Early Outpost for the Shoals
  • Memorial Day 
  • Memorial Day Address
  • Merchant Prince (2)
  • Message from the Ashes
  • Mhoontown Circuit Rider
  • Military Hero From LaGrange
  • Milner Family and the Woolen Factory
  • Milners' Generosity Lives On
  • Miss Ada Coffee, The  Teacher
  • Miss Maud Legacy Lives on with Free Kindergarten
  • Mitchell Best Known for Prayer
  • Mother's Kitchen
  • Mother's Love
  • Mountain Mills
  • Muscle Shoals and the Trail of Tears
  • Muscle Shoals' First Dreamer
  • Muscle Shoals' First Land Speculator - The Donelson and Coffee Connection
  • Muscle Shoals in 1818
  • Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick (A Civil War Story)
  • Mystery of the Ancient Cathedral of the Shoals
  • Names Add Beauty to Our History
  • Names for the Unknowns
  • Natchez Trace Key to Early Settlements
  • Natchez Trace, the Early Years
  • Nature's Masterpiece of Power A Historical Synopsis of Muscle 
  •      Shoals and the Tennessee Valley (2)
  • Negley Saga Began During Civil War
  • New Year and a New Book
  • Night Sherman's Men Raided Sweetwater
  • Nitrate Plant Number Two
  • Nobleman's Grave
  • November and Smog
  • Oaks Plantation
  • Oaks Stood at the Bend of the River
  • October 1863 Skirmishes in West Colbert County
  • October Skirmishes Repeat Earlier Fight
  • Old Campman
  • Old Legends That Never Die
  • Old Railroad Bridge at Florence - And the River Crossing 
  • Old Rube Blew His Horn for the South
  • Old Soldier
  • Old Soldier and a Good Neighbor
  • Old Soldier who Loved Peach Brandy and Hated Andrew Jackson
  • Old Stories Contain Great Deal of History
  • O'Neal Name Proves to be Strong Dynasty
  • O'Neal the Soldier
  • Our American Heritage
  • Our Genuine Wish
  • Our Heritage From the People (2)
  • Our Perpetual Principal.
  • Outlaws Left Mark on Shoals
  • Over the Elk
  • Park Legeacy of Allan Family
  • Park Named for President
  • Park's History Long and Storied
  • Patton Island
  • Pestilence and the Pesthouse
  • Petersville and Underwood
  • Physician and the Irishman
  • Piedmont the Owl
  • Pillow Family Connections at the Shoals
  • Pioneer Highway Marker for the Zanesville, Ohio, to Florence, Alabama, Pike
  • Pioneer Lady Who Saved Her Home
  • Pioneers Who Came to Stay
  • Plague May Have Come From Troops
  • Plantation Called Hickory Flat
  • Poke Sallet
  • Polly Allen - Heroine of Blue Water Creek
  • Porch
  • Post Played Crucial Role in Transition
  • Preacher and the Colonel
  • Preacher's Son
  • Prehistoric Copena Culture at the Muscle Shoals
  • Pre-Historic Sites at the Shoals 
  • Profile of the Indians at Muscle Shoals, Alabama (3)
  • Project 150 Years in the Great Muscle Shoals Area (2)
  • Pumpkins and Things
  • Rand Family Makes Way to Shoals
  • Real Special Mother's Day
  • Remarkable Miss Lulie Jones
  • Renowned Slave in the Early Life of Florence (2)
  • Reserve
  • Reserve Has Escaped Developers
  • Restoration of Cannon Cemetery
  • Reuben Patterson, Confederate Veteran
  • Reunion
  • Revolutionary War Hero
  • Revolutionary War Veteran in Early Rogersville
  • Richard Rivers: Man with 21st Century Vision
  • Richardson Era In Waterloo
  • Richardsons Known for Charity
  • Riding With Biffle
  • River Crossing Fateful Event for Wheeler
  • River Heritage Indian Tomb Site
  • River Lore
  • Riverton Has Origins with Smith Family
  • Road, River Crossings Opened Area to Growth
  • Roads Not Always an Area Problem
  • Robert Paine and the Legacy of Leadership
  • Rocking Chairs and Little Things
  • Rogers Hall Creation of Foster
  • Rogersville Settler Has Ties to Revolution
  • Role of Casey Never Forgotten
  • Room 158, Holiday Inn
  • Roots in North Alabama
  • Route Part of Historic Path Into Florence
  • Rural Crossroads in Alabama
  • Saga of Nelson McCuan, A Lover of Fine Horses
  • Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Salt Cave on the Doublehead Reserve (2)
  • Sample More Than Local Merchant
  • Samuel Sinclair's Grave
  • Saunders Hall
  • Secret of Genius (2)
  • Seminole War Saw Soldiers From Shoals
  • September Changes Summer into Fall
  • Settlers Flocked to Area in 1818
  • Shawnees' Story Almost Lost to Time
  • Sheffield's Romantic Writer and Fighter Pilot of World War I
  • Shell that Gave Its Name to Muscle Shoals
  • Sherman and the Bushwhackers
  • Sherman Crosses River at Waterloo
  • Sherman's River Crossing Was Fortuitous
  • Shiloh Peace Tree
  • Shoals Gives Rise to Many Confederate Generals
  • Shoals Scene of Fighting
  • Shoals Served as River Barrier
  • Sides in War Sometimes Civil
  • Silence
  • Singing River Mythology at the Shoals
  • Singing River Myths
  • Sinks Plantation in West Lauderdale County
  • Sketches of a Few Historic Footprints in Lauderdale County, Alabama (3)
  • Skirmishes Fought Near Florence
  • Slave Risked Life for Man
  • Slave Who Wanted to Be Free
  • Snow in the Shenandoahs
  • Soldier Has Unique War Experience
  • Soldier Liked What He Saw During Visit to Florence
  • Soldier Who Didn't Come Home
  • Soldier's Grave in Soldier's Rest
  • Soldier's Rest The Confederate Cemetery at Florence, Alabama
  • Soldiers' Tomb at Parsonage Chapel
  • Someday, Somewhere, Somehow
  • Songs and Changing Seasons
  • Sopping Molasses
  • Sound of A Gunshot and the Mill That Burned (2)
  • Sounds of Handy's Music on the Tennessee River
  • Sounds of Silence Now Fill Hollow
  • South Port a Booming Business Area
  • Spirit of Thanksgiving
  • Spring Hill Plantation 
  • Spring Hill Plantation Featured in Book
  • Springtime and Martin Gourds
  • Springtime in Reverse
  • State's First Black Church Was Started by Lightfoot
  • Store and the Storekeeper
  • Story About Waterloo and the Men Who Were Too Old to Fight
  • Story of Early Rogersville
  • Story of Handy's Maternal Grandfather
  • Story of Sam at Sweetwater
  • Story of the Beginnings of Old Brick Presbyterian Church
  • Story of the General Who Stumbled at Sweetwater
  • Story of the Shawnees at the Muscle Shoals
  • Story of W.C. Handy's Other Grandfather
  • Strategic Muscle Shoals and the Federal Navy
  • Street Named for Hero of the Civil War
  • Street That Was Named for a Hero
  • Streight Part of Brief Alabama Raid
  • Stribling Had Many Ties to Area
  • Sub-Divisions and Landmarks
  • Subdivisions Now Border Hickory Flat
  • Summer of 1862
  • Summer Vacations
  • Summer's Ending
  • Sunday Afternoon in 1864
  • Sweet Reward Gift of Captor and Prisoner
  • Sweetwater - The Story of East Florence 
  • Sweetwater Creek
  • Swords, Plowshares, and General John Coffee
  • T.S. Stribling
  • T.S. Stribling's Ties to Lauderdale County
  • Tea Room Bears Colonel's Name
  • Tennessee Cut - The Gateway to East Florence
  • Terms of Surrender Amid Bottles of Liquor
  • Thanksgiving and the Best
  • Thanksgiving in America
  • Thanksgiving is Not a Free Lunch
  • That Man Thrasher
  • Theology of April
  • This Old House
  • This Year's Garden
  • Thoughts for February
  • Thoughts on Fuel Shortage
  • Three Murders at Parsonage Chapel (2)
  • Three Sweetwaters of Florence
  • Time and Effort
  • Times and Events at Herman Springs
  • Times and Events at Herman Springs Near Center Star
  • Times and Events at Herman Springs When Lauderdale County Was a Frontier.
  • Today Marks 220th Birthday of Florence Founder, Miltary Hero
  • Tom Clark Most Feared of Local Tories
  • Touch of Ireland in Ante-Bellum Florence
  • Touch of Ireland in the Hills of Alabama
  • Tracing the History of Cypress Inn
  • Tragic Civil War Years in Gist Town
  • Treaty Led to Chief's Assassination
  • Tree a Symbol of Peace for Shiloh Soldiers
  • Tribute to Bridge Over Elk River
  • True Story of Sam at Sweetwater
  • Truth About Hayes May Never Be Known
  • Turnover
  • Twist of Fate
  • Two Early Civil War Hospitals
  • Two Interviews with Civil War Veterans
  • Two Local Legendary Heroes
  • Two Men, Spoken Words, and a Song
  • Two Skirmishes at Four Mile Branch
  • Uncertain February Brings Certain Certainties
  • Uncle Tom Brannon and the Capture of John A. Murrel (2)
  • Underneath Wilson Lake
  • Underwater Historical Sites Abound
  • Union Cavalry at Gravelly Springs and Waterloo
  • Union Colonel Fielding Hurst
  • Union Officer Was Friend, Foe to Area Citizens
  • Union Soldier One of Last to be Treated at Pope's Tavern
  • Unique Terms for Unusual Soldiers
  • United Methodist Church at Waterloo
  • United States Post Office and Courthouse at Florence
  • Unlikely Hero Braves Enemy, Saves City
  • Veteran's Birthplace Near Trowbridge's
  • Veteran's Day
  • View From Old LaGrange (2)
  • Village Grew Around Cotton Mill
  • Visit with Abraham Lincoln
  • Volunteers Restore Price Cemetery
  • Waiting Room
  • Wandering in the Valley
  • War Divided Families, Churches
  • War Story with a Beautiful Ending
  • War Veteran Remembers Needed Help
  • Wartime Preacher
  • Wartime Wedding
  • Waterloo
  • Waterloo  An Early River Town
  • Waterloo Baptist Church and the Missionary
  • Waterloo Founder Provides Link to Tennessee Town
  • Waterloo Has Footnote in Lottie's Life
  • Waterloo's Steamboat Captain
  • Weakley Brothers
  • Wedding
  • Welcome Wonderful October
  • Wesleyan Hall, A State Landmark
  • Wesleyan Hall, An Alabama Landmark (2)
  • Wesleyan Hall an Alabama Landmark, Centerpiece for Training of Educators
  • Wesleyan Hall, Its Legacy to Higher Education in Early Alabama
  • When Lauderdale County Was a Frontier
  • When the Indian Mound Was a Vegetable Garden
  • White Path--The Protector of Indian Lands at the Muscle Shoals (5)
  • White's Mill Road Bridge (2)
  • Wildwood has Ties to Governor's Mansion
  • Wildwood Plantation at Gravelly Springs
  • Wildwood: Scenic Park Lives On
  • Wilson Dam
  • Wilson Park
  • Wish for a Wand
  • Wives Played Essential Role in McKinley's Rise to the Top
  • Wood Avenue Gets Its Name from a Legend
  • Wood Has a Sterling War Record
  • World is Shrinking
  • World War I Memorials 
  • Worst of War (3)
  • Writings Aid Appreciation of Days Past
  • Yankee Connection
  • Yankee General Who Was Educated in Florence
  • Yankee Patient at Pope's Tavern
  • Yellow Fever Epidemic/Yellow Fever Deaths in 1878

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