Often we walk by history every day and never notice. Recently I was waiting on the bus to take me to my car in the UAB remote parking lot an...

On April 6, 2014, legendary actor Mickey Rooney died at age 93 after eight decades performing in films, television, stage, radio and vaudevi...

Near Pelham City Hall stands a historical marker that includes the following text: “Near this site stood Shelbyville, A.T., first county se...

In the first three installments of this series I looked at the city of Pelham on some old maps. Why Pelham, you ask? I live there, silly! No...

Well, a "visit" is an ambitious word in this case, since the cemetery is so small and so close to my mother's house in southea...

On a recent trip from Huntsville back home to Pelham, I stopped at the old courthouse building just off state highway 36 in Somerville. That...

The following item was posted to the USGenWeb genealogy site in 2008. The original article supposedly appeared in the New York Tribune  and...