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

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