A History of Florence, Alabama. (with 1850 Census of Lauderdale County)


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By: Jill K. Garrett, Pub. 1968, reprinted 2024, 292 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-333-7. Florence is located in Lauderdale County, Alabama. This book is a companion study of "A History of Lauderdale County, Alabama". Lauderdale County sits in the extreme northwest corner of the state along the Tennessee River just under Lawrence, Wayne and Hardin Counties, Tennessee. The author tells of the history of the city and county through Court Minutes, Newspaper abstracts and advertisements giving a more in depth look at life during these times. The reader will also find additional data such as: owners of lots in the city with lot # and price, 1850 Mortality Schedule for the City, an 1850 Census of the City, Considerable dealings with persons from the city during the Civil War, Lauderdale County Marriages 1820-1833 and additional items of interest. The Index mentions approximately 12,000 persons.




Florence


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Join author and historian Carolyn Barske as she recounts the history of Florence, Alabama through the lens of over 200 vintage images. On the banks of the Tennessee River, below the once-formidable Muscle Shoals in northwest Alabama, sits the vibrant community of Florence. In the early 19th century, the Chickasaw Nation ceded lands to the US government, and in 1818 the Cypress Land Company held its first auction. The town grew quickly because of the efforts of the company's founders, which included Gen. John Coffee; John McKinley, who later sat on the US Supreme Court; and James Jackson, whose imported Thoroughbred horses became the bloodstock for some of Kentucky's finest racehorses. Schools, churches, hotels, and businesses soon filled the streets. For almost 200 years, the town of Florence has continued to grow, becoming home to the University of North Alabama and people like the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy; Maud Lindsay, who operated the first free kindergarten in the state; and four governors in Edward A. O'Neal, Emmett O'Neal, Robert M. Patton, and Hugh McVay.







Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery


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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.




Place Names in Alabama


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Catalogs some 2700 Alabama communities, ranging from Abanda, in Chambers County, to Zip City, in Lauderdale County.










The Genealogical Record


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The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs


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Record of an aristocrat from Athens Al. written between 1840 served in the CSA.