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Author: William A. Read Publisher: University Alabama Press ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 136
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"What is the 'meaning' of names like "Coosa" and "Tallapoosa"? Who named the "Alabama" and "Tombigbee" and "Tennessee" rivers? How are "Cheaha" and "Conecuh" and "Talladega" pronounced? How did "Opelika" and "Tuscaloosa" get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.--from the Foreword Originally published by Professor Read in 1937, this volume was revised, updated, and annotated in 1984 by James B. McMillan and remains the single best compedium on the topic.
Author: W. Stuart Harris Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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Dead Towns of Alabama is not merely a series of obituaries but a vivid story of the life of each town it resurrects. In the course of bringing back to life 83 Indian towns, 77 fort sites, and 112 colonial, territorial, and state towns, W. Stuart Harris conjures up a wealth of fascinating images from Alabama's rich and colorful past -- images of life as the Indians lived it, of colonial life in the wilderness, of Spanish explorers and French exiles, of danger and romance, glory and slavery, riverboats and railroads, plantations and gold mines, stagecoaches and ferries. It is a thoroughly absorbing panorama of Alabama's history. Book jacket.
Author: Gregory A. Boyd Publisher: ISBN: 9781420313918 Category : Languages : en Pages : 444
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Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Sumter County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 444 pages with 113 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6205 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 72 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s18 1830s5812 1840s161 1850s67 1860s26 1880s20 1890s67 1900s23 1910s6 1920s3 1930s1 1940s1 What Cities and Towns are in Sumter County, Alabama (and in this book)? Bellamy, Belmont, Bluffport, Boyd, Brasfield Landing, Brewersville, Brownstown, Coatopa, Cuba, Deans Landing, Derby, Dove, Dug Hill, Emelle, Epes, Fair Oaks, Gainesville, Gaston, Geiger, Hall Creek, Hamner, Hixon, Intercourse, Kinterbish, Lilita, Livingston, Lukes Landing, McCainville, McDowell, Millville, Moore Town, Old Bluffport, Panola, Parker, Payneville, Persimmon Grove, Scratch Hill, Siloam, Sledge, Standard, Sumterville, Ward, Warsaw, Whitfield, Williams, Woodford, York, Zion Hill
Author: Joseph Finch Publisher: ISBN: 9781496973870 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 52
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This book explores with my six-year-old grandson Max the kinds of places he lives. When he asked whether Alabama was in Texas or whether Camarillo was a state, I knew he needed some help in sorting out the kinds of places he lived in. "Alabama--Is That in Texas?" introduces Max to these places. They include a house, a street, a zip code, city, county, state . . . right on up through a planet, star system, and galaxy. In the final analysis, he learns that he is a child of the Universe, like you and me, and that he has a lot of places to call home.
Author: Virginia O. Foscue
Author: Virginia O. Foscue
Author: William A. Read
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Author: Stuart Harris
Author: W. Stuart Harris
Author: William Alexander Read
Author: William A. Read
Author: W. Stuart Harris
Author: Gregory A. Boyd
Author: Joseph Finch