Tag: History

Jim Sawgrass DANVILLE - Just a short drive from Cullman you’ll find a vastly different culture celebrated each year at the Oakville Indian Mounds Park...

George Mills, a local WWII veteran, was hosted for a two-hour seminar Tuesday by Wallace State history instructor Leigh Ann Courington. She and her...

From the Files of 1939:   Mr. John Ivey visited Mr. Hiram Ivey, of Joppa, on Sunday evening.   Misses Jennie Miller and Ruth and Ruby Johnson...

Event Mistress of Ceremonies, Ms. Ethel Alexander COLONY - Citizens of Colony and others gathered in the town’s Educational Complex Friday night, packing its auditorium...

From the Files of 1957:   Cold Springs Boy Makes Record with Corn Crop Jack Rice, President of Cold Springs F.F.A. Chapter, proved that corn can be...

Then Alabama Gov. "Big Jim" Folsom and Tom Drake, right The Cullman Tribune would like to take this opportunity to wish a very Happy Birthday...

Museum Events Coordinator Julie Burks and Trust VP Bo Osborn CULLMAN - If you see strangers wandering around Cullman this weekend, staring at old buildings...

CULLMAN - The pig, sheep, baby chicks and bunnies are getting used to school kids petting them every day.  The mules are pulling the...

Photo: Small businesswoman Glenda Jones CULLMAN - Author of “Saving Capitalism,” co-creator of the film “Inequality for All,” and former United States Sec. of Labor...

Photo: Tom Hendrix This group of Indians were walked from right here (Florence) to the Indian Nation, which is what we call Oklahoma today;...

From the Files of 1905 There was not more than a third of a crop of strawberries this year. The little son of Mr. and Mrs....

HANCEVILLE - Classes on researching your ancestry through genealogy and local history will be offered through the Wallace State Continuing Education program this fall....

From the Files of 1907 Hanceville News  Misses Kate and Mary Stender, of Cullman, spent Sunday with parents, in Hanceville.  Miss Dela Matthews returned Saturday from a...

From the Files of 1933 This year Easter comes on the nineteenth day of April. The seniors at Cullman High School are planning for class...

Reprinted from The Cullman Tribune, 1919 Shocking Tragedy Occurred in Cullman Last Saturday Night    Mr. Graves went to the side of Sheriff Sparks, who said, “Graves...

GOOD HOPE - Located on Reid Road in Good Hope, this old house holds many happy memories for my family and me. Although it...

BATTLEGROUND - Battleground is just one of the many Forrest-Streight historical markers that stretch across north Alabama. Located at the intersection of Highway 157...

CULLMAN - Today, feather beds and mattress toppers are considered a thing of luxury. The soft, fluffy, feather/down blend looks and feels like you...

HOLLY POND – Have you ever walked through an old cemetery and wondered who was buried there? What did they look like? Were they...

Each week, we're going to share a few items from The Cullman Tribune's archives. It may not be "important" news, but we think it's...

Some local historians simply refuse to believe that there were Georgians, Tennesseans and South Carolinians who lived here for decades before migrating west. After...

Reporter Sharon Schuler Kreps shares a private family letter.   GOOD HOPE - The following letter was written by my grandfather, Glenn Ray Reid, on July...