Family Maps of Walker County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

Family Maps of Walker County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Author: Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2010-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781420314410
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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 Walker 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. 364 pages with 98 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 7079 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 96 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 1820s100 1830s724 1840s124 1850s2021 1860s1396 1870s76 1880s1315 1890s1032 1900s79 1910s179 1920s33 What Cities and Towns are in Walker County, Alabama (and in this book)? Aldridge, America, Argo, Bankhead, Barney, Benoit, Bethel, Big Ridge, Black Warrior Town (historical), Boldo, Bradleytown, Browntown, Bryan, Burnwell, Burrows Crossroads, Calumet, Camak Mills (historical), Cameron, Campbellville, Carbon Hill, Cedar Lake, Cedrum, Chapel Hill, Clarke, Coal Valley, Coon Creek, Cordova, Corinth, Corona, Creel, Curry, Deason Hill, Debardeleben, Dilworth, Dixie Springs, Dogtown, Doliska, Dora, Dora Junction, Dovertown, Drifton, Drummond, Edgil, Eldridge, Empire, Enoe, Fairview, Five Points, Flatwood, Frisco Quarters, Gamble, Gardiners Gin, Gayosa, Gobblers Crossing, Goodsprings, Gorgas, Hayes Crossing, High Level, Hilliard, Hillsdale, Holly Grove, Hudson Settlement, Hull, Jasper, Kansas, Kershaw, Key Hill, Kings Mill, Lake Shore Subdivision, Littletons, Lockhart (historical), Lone Oak Subdivision, Lorton, Lupton, Lynns Park, Macedonia, Manchester, Marietta, Marigold, Marylee, McCollum, Mount Hope, Mountain Valley (historical), Nauvoo, New Jagger, Oak Hill, Oakahalla, Oakman, Parrish, Patton, Pendley, Pennsylvania Camp (historical), Pleasant Field, Pleasant Grove, Pocahontas, Powellville, Prospect, Providence, Pumpkin Center, Quinton, Quintown, Red Rock, Red Star, Reeds Ferry, Rocky Hollow, Rosehill, Ruby (historical), Samoset, Saragossa, Sardis, Sardis, Short Camp, Sipsey, Slicklizzard, Sloss, South Lowell, Spring Hill, Standard, Stephenson Crossing, Sumiton, Sumiton Trailer Park, Sunlight, Thach, Townley, Tutwiler, Twilley Town, Union Chapel, Wegra, West Corona, Williamstown, Wyatt, Yerkwood, York Mountain

Family Maps of Randolph County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

Family Maps of Randolph County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Author: Gregory A. Boyd J.D.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9781420320336
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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 Randolph 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. 326 pages with 71 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6708 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 46 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 1830s609 1840s495 1850s2878 1860s1806 1870s95 1880s380 1890s284 1900s98 1910s34 1920s9 1950s3 1990s1 What Cities and Towns are in Randolph County, Alabama (and in this book)? Almond, Ava, Bacon Level, Barrett Crossroads, Bethel, Big Springs, Blake, Broughton, Butlers Mill, Cambridge, Cavers Grove, Cedron, Center Chapel, Center West, Christiana, Concord, Corbin, Corinth, Corinth, Cornhouse, Curt, Dickert, Dingler, Folsom, Forester Chapel, Foster Crossroad, Friendship, Fuller Crossroad, Gold Ridge, Graham, Harmon Crossroads, Hawk, Haywood, High Pine, High Shoals, Hobson, Jordan Chapel, Kaylor, Lamar, Lee Crossroads, Liberty, Liberty Grove, Lime, Lofty, Louina, Malone, Midway, Milner, Moores Crossroads, Morrison Crossroad, Mount Olive, Mount Pleasant, Mount Zion, Napoleon, New Hope, Newell, Ofelia, Omaha, Paran, Peace, Peavy, Pine Hill, Pine Tuckey, Pooles Crossroad, Potash, Providence, Roanoke, Rock Mills, Rockdale, Rocky Branch, Sewell, Smyrna, Springfield, Swagg, Taylors Crossroads, Tennant, Union, Wadley, Waldrep, Wedowee, Wehadkee, West, White Crossroads, White Signboard Crossroad, Wildwood, Woodland

Silent Cavalry

Silent Cavalry
Author: Howell Raines
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0593137760
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. “It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past.”—Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award–winning author of South to America We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story? As Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don’t we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth. In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014
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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

The Negro Motorist Green Book

The Negro Motorist Green Book
Author: Victor H. Green
Publisher: Colchis Books
Total Pages: 222
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:
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The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.