Articles by William Lindsey McDonald, 1960 - 2009(McDonald Collection, Collier Library Archives & Special Collections)

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

2 X 2 = 4

100-year Flood Washed out Creeks, Jobs

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 Martin 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

Angel Called Mattie

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

Artist welcomed at Sweetwater

Assassination of Colonel Cornyn

Assurance of May

Attorney Was at Center of a Feud Between Bluebloods

August, the Finale of Summer

Auld Land Syne or Old Long Ago

Austin Leads Settlers to Area

Australian Mountain and an East Florence Hill

Autumn Day at Raccoon Branch

Autumn in the Country (Dorothy McDonald)

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Back Roads to the Beech Tree

Baker has Deep Roots in Shoals

Banking the Fire

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

Bears, the Blue Ridge and Apple Butter

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

Blackberry Time

Black Master (3)

Blockade Runner

Blockhouse on Coxe's Island and Its 20th Century Legacy (2)

Blooms, Bolls and Cotton Gins

Blue Bloods, Drunks and Gold Stars

Blue Hole on Cypress Creek

Boddie Plantation in the Colbert's Reserve

Bofur

Books and Folk

Boy Who Went to War

Brandon School

Brandon Mills Amoung First Producing After Civil War

Brave Blockade Runner Wore Skirts and a Bun

Breakfast and the Best

Brick Maker

Bridge Burner

Bridge Opens Door to Growth, Prosperity

Brief History of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama

Brief History of Florence, Alabama

Brief History of the Florence Harbor

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Brother's Murder Preceded Raids

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

But I'm So Happy

Butler was Unsung Hero of Frontier

Cabbage is Out!

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

Cantral began with Sullivan's Crossroads

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 Chiefs Settle Country

Chickasaw Conference at Campbell's Ferry

Chickasaws Were Good Neighbors

Chief Bigfoot at the Shoals

Chief Bigfoot Slain in Lauderdale County

Chief Glass

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Chief Tuscumbia

Child Again on Christmas

Child Again on Christmas Day

Chisholm Name Played Key Role

Choctaws, Chickasaws Share Past

Clearing Time

Christmas Conference

Christmas Gift from the Past

Christmas is Christmas is Many Things to All of Us

Christmas is Hope

Christmas Window

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

Come, 1983!

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

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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

Daddies at Graduation

Dancing with the Daffodils

Dark Side of Court Street

Day of Infamy on Middle Cypress Creek

Day They Set Fire to the Mills (2)

Days of June and Forever

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

Doublehead Had First Lauderdale Store

Douglass Relative Designed Post Office

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

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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

Earth, the Plow, and Man

Easter Among the Lilies

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

Enchanted Forest

Endurable Swing

Enforcer Sought Refuge After Civil War

Engineering Mastermind Once Lived in Florence

Enough For Us and the Crows

Entrepreneur Began His Career of 72 Years by Digging Ditches

Errors in Article Are Corrected

Euchees Who Lived at the Muscle Shoals in the Long Ago

Evans Lived Eventful Life

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

Fame, Fortune ad Forsaken tomb

Family Cemetery Rediscovered, Restored by Corporate Owners

Famous Kennedy Long Rifle

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Fantasy, Land Elves and Other Little Things

Farm

Farm Animals

Fatal Blow was Battle's Turning Point

Father of the Colberts

Father of Waterloo

Father, Son Murdered on Same Day

Father's Day

Ferry Site of Meeting With Chiefs

Ferry Was Slow But Dependable

Final, Immodest Message

Finding an Old Friend

Finding the Name of an Unknown Soldier

Fireflies and a Summer's Night

First Alabama Cavalry Unique

First Christmas Card

First Lady and Springtime Living

First United Methodist Church, Florence, Alabama - A Brief History

Flavored with Onions

Florence 175!

Florence a Strategic Town in Civil War

Florence Alabama

Florence An Early Cotton Mill Town

Florence Destination for First Interstate

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

Flu Epidemic Inspired Public Hospitals

Footbridge

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Footbridge That Used to Be

Footprints by the Sea

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 Florence

Founding of Waterloo

Four More Months to Live

Friend by the Side of the Road

From East Florence to Western Australia

From the Seashore

From Your Pastor

Front Porch

Frontier Hero was Alumnus of University at Florence

Frontier Years in Florence

Fundamental Research to Survive

Garden Hoe

Garden Watchers

Gardens and Light Thoughts

Gathering

Gathering Hickory Nuts

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 : an early Lauderdale Settler

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

General's Faithful "Camp Man"

Gentle Lady of Mars Hill

George Colbert and His Tennessee River Ferry (3)

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George Colbert's Ferry (2)

German Lester (1785-1848)

Getting an Early Start

Getting to Know Little Albert

Gift of a Hat

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 Fences Make Good Neighbors

Good Friend and Neighbor

Good Yankee

Gov. Robert Miller Patton

Governor Robert Miller Patton of Lauderdale County, Alabama

Graduation Time is Here…

Grandmothers and Medicine (see: Marywood Messenger)

Granny's Mountain (see: Marywood Messenger)

Grave at Forks of Cypress Cemetery Receives Civil War Monument

Grave Markers will be Restored

Grave of a Patriot's Widow

Great Highway to Florence

Green Hill

Green Hill (note list)

Green Hill and Its Ties to the Long Rifle

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

Here I Am Again

Hero of the American Revolution, An

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Heroic Actions of Polly Allen Saved Her Cabin

Hickory Hill Helped Fulfill a Dream for General Coffee

Hills of Watermelons

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 Area Will Be Subject of New Video

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 Dad Provided

Home for Christmas (2)

Home of General John Coffee at Hickory Hill

Homestead Has Long Family History

Honor and Graduation

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 Visit

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

Hunting Muscadines

Hurst was a One-Man Reign of Terror

Ice on the Snow

Iced Tea in Mother's Kitchen

Ijams of the American Revolution

I'll Be Home for Christmas

I've Been Here Before

Ice Trail

Identities Now Known

Identity of the Misplaced Portrait

Immigrant's Story of Success

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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

Interesting Facts About Florence

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 Vegetable Gardens

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

Joy of December…Only a Few More Days Away

Judge's Mansion on the River (2)

July is Always Welcomed

Keeping Christmas

Key Plantation site rich in local lore

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

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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

Leaning Trees and Unbeatable Foes

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

Licking the Bowls

Life and Times of Mary Nichols Evans

Life in the 1800s in the wilderness

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

Lilac

Lilac for Mothers

Lilac for Mother's Day

Little Albert

Little George, the Mountain and Me

Little Lower Than Angels

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Little Rebel and the Colonel

Local Chickasaws and the Trail of Tears

Local Civil War Sites (Revised April 1997)

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

Magic of a Model A

Magic of Christmas

Magnolia Church of Christ

Mail Carrier Liked What He Saw in Area

Malcolm Gilchrist and the Midas Touch

Malcolm Riggs: 'Becoming a Legend'

Man Buried Under Tennessee Street

Mansion of the Hill

March and My Half Acre

March Freshet of 1902

Matriculation in May

Maud Lindsay Free Kindergarten Has Roots in Old Boddie Plantation

Maud Lindsay Kindergarten

Maxwell Hill Opens Part of City to Industry

May Dusk and Sweet Honeysuckle

Maybe It's Not Too Late to Say It

McFarland Bottom Part of City's Past

McKinley Arrived at Height of His Dreams

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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

Memories of our Old Hill

Merchant Prince (2)

Merry Christmas

Message from the Ashes

Message to Our Grandson

Message to Our New Grandson

Mhoontown Circuit Rider

Military Hero From LaGrange

Military Science and Homespun Theology

Milner Family and the Woolen Factory

Milners' Generosity Lives On

Miracle Beneath the Clouds

Miracle of the Star

Miss Ada Coffee, The Teacher

Miss Maud Legacy Lives On with Free Kindergarten

Mitchell Best Known for Prayer

Mom's Big Kettle and Pa's Fondness for the Taste of Oatmeal

Moment of Truth

Mother's Day

Mother's Kitchen

Mother's Love

Mother's Rose

Mountain Mills

Moving Day

Mrs. James L. Penn- Quite a Lady

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

My Backdoor Cat

My First Sunday School Teacher…

My Home's in Alabama: History of the City of Florence and Florence Housing Authority

My Upper Room

Mysterious Blossoms

Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick (A Civil War Story)

Mystery of the Ancient Cathedral of the Shoals

Names Add Beauty to Our History

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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 and Spring-like Day

New Year and a New Book

Night Sherman's Men Raided Sweetwater

Nitrate Plant Number Two

Nobleman's Grave

November and Smog

November and the Smog

Nurse in Uniform

Oaks Plantation

Oaks Stood at the Bend of the River

October 1863 Skirmishes in West Colbert County

October Skirmishes Repeat Earlier Fight

Ode to October

Old Campman

Old Dogged Daddy Pat

Old-Fashioned New Year

Old Legends That Never Die

Old North Field

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's Memory of War

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

Opryland, USA

Our American Heritage

Our Dog Bofur

Our Genuine Wish

Our Heritage From the People (2)

Our Old Hill

Our Perpetual Principal…

Our Solemn Watch

Outlaws Left Mark on Shoals

Over the Elk

Pa, Mom's Big Kettle, and the Taste of Oatmeal

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Parching pumpkin seeds

Park Legacy of Allen Family

Park Named for President

Park's History Long and Storied

Passing of a Friend

Paths in the Brier Patch

Patton Island

Peach Blossoms Come with Spring

Peg Behind the Door

Pestilence and the Pesthouse

Petersville and Underwood

Physician and the Irishman

Piedmont's House

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

Plantation Took Name From Creek

Poke Sallet

Polly Allen - Heroine of Blue Water Creek

Popping Corn

Porch

Portraits Add New Dimension to History

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

Presentation of Architectural Plans for the Florence Railroad Bridge (1892)

Profile of the Indians at Muscle Shoals, Alabama (3)

Project 150 Years in the Great Muscle Shoals Area (2)

Prominent Lawyer, Planter Built Mansion

Pumpkins and Things

Quitting Time

Rachel's Quest

Raking Leaves

Rand Family Makes Way to Shoals

Real Mother's Day

Real Special Mother's Day

Red Oaks, Tree Frogs, and Katydids

Remarkable Miss Lulie Jones

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Remembering Mom's Big Kettle and Our Scottish Ways

Renowned Slave in the Early Life of Florence (2)

Requiem to a Beautiful Year

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

Rifle on Display at Pope's Tavern

Ringing the Bell

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

Rose That Was Left Behind

Round Heads' on Koger's Island, the

Route Part of Historic Path Into Florence

Rural Crossroads in Alabama

Sacred Harp

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

Saunders Hall Known for Elegance

Saving the Best

Saving the Best for Last

Secret of Genius (2)

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Seminole War Saw Soldiers From Shoals

September Changes Summer into Fall

Settlers Flocked to Area in 1818

Shawdow on the Road

Shawnees' Story Almost Lost to Time

Sheffield Native's Letters Became Book

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

Sinclair a Hated Army Officer

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

Smiths Linked to Sweetwater

Smoke in the Valley

Snapping Beans

Snow in the Shenandoahs (see: Marywood Messenger)

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

Speaking, Listening and Doing

Special Corner for Mustard Greens

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Spending the Day

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

Status of a Coal Pile

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

Stranger in the Vacant Lot

Strategic Muscle Shoals and the Federal Navy

Strawberries and Recipes

Street Named for Hero of the Civil War

Street That Was Named for a Hero

Streight Part of Brief Alabama Raid

Strength from a Wheel Chair

Stribling Had Many Ties to Area

Sub-Divisions and Landmarks

Subdivisions Now Border Hickory Flat

Summer Afternoons and Papa's Bench

Summer Afternoons and Papa's White Bench…

Summer Begins in June

Summer Camp

Summer Night

Summer of 1862

Summertime and the Touch of Boxwoods

Summer Trails and Ice

Summer Vacations

Summer's Ending

Sunday Afternoon in 1864

Sweet Reward Gift of Captor and Prisoner

Sweet Shrubs in May

Sweetwater - The Story of East Florence

Sweetwater Creek

Swords, Plowshares, and General John Coffee

T.S. Stribling

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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

Thanksgiving, a Mixture of the New and the Old

Thanksgiving and the Best

Thanksgiving in America

Thanksgiving is Not a Free Lunch

That Man Thrasher

Theology of April

There is Always a Place in Our Garden for Mustard

These Washing Tides

This is Life!

This Old House

This Year's Garden

Thoughts for February

Thoughts from Your Pastor: A Real Mother's Day

Earth, the plow, and man

Thoughts on Fuel Shortage

Three Murders at Parsonage Chapel (2)

Three Sweetwaters of Florence

Time and Effort

Time of the Rose

Time, the Sea, and Uncle Bert's Mountain

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…

To Our Youngest Granddaughter

Today Marks 220th Birthday of Florence Founder, Miltary Hero

Tom Clark Most Feared of Local Tories

Touch of Boxwood

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

Tree Frogs, July Flies and Katydids

Tribute to Bridge Over Elk River

True Story of Sam at Sweetwater

Truth About Hayes May Never Be Known

Turkey, Corn Bread Dressing, and Pumpkin Pie

Turnover

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Twist of Fate

Twist Unite Familes' Fates

Twisted Nails and Long Ago

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 Nelson and the Beech Tree

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 Methodists Celebrate Their 200th Birthday

United States Post Office and Courthouse at Florence

Unlikely Hero Braves Enemy, Saves City

Valley of Rivers, Hills and Trees

Veteran's Birthplace Near Trowbridge's

Veteran's Day

Veteran's Day Speech

Village Grew Around Cotton Mill

Visit with Abraham Lincoln

Visiting the Red River Valley

Volunteers Restore Price Cemetery

Waiting Room

Wake of Submarine and Wilson Dam

Walk in the Woods

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 Dates to Early 1800s

Waterloo Founder Provides Link to Tennessee Town

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Waterloo Has Footnote in Lottie's Life

Waterloo's Steamboat Captain

Weakley Brothers

Wedding

Welcome April!

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)

Why! We'll Just Have to Whup 'Em Again

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 Avenue Named for Judge

Wood Has a Sterling War Record

World is Shrinking

World War I Memorials

World War I Patriotism Sweeps Shoals

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

Yesterday's Christmas Tree

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