****** Sketches of Alabama
by Mary Gordon Duffee (1844-1920), Historian
No index. Page numbers are from the papers and documents where they appeared, book itself is not numbered.
This is a listing of articles as they appear in the book, odd pg # and all. The book itself is not on this site, it will need purchased elsewhere.
Being an account of the journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs through Jefferson County on the old stage roads.
1st pg - 255 Mary Gordon Duffee bio
256 Peter Joseph Hamilton
135 about the Sketches
136 Plank Roads & Railroads, Coal Haulers
137 Iron Ore
139 Cave-in & Jones Valley
140 Red Mountain
142 Jonesboro & Fruit Culture
143 Cotton
144 Jonesboro Pioneers
145 Samuel Tarrant & James McAdory
147 Indian Mounds
148 Stony Lonesome, home of David Hawkins, member of numerous Hawkins family
149 Carrolsville
152 book - Constitutional Development in ALA 1798-1901
224 Pioneer Schools
226 Williamson Hawkins, came from TN abt 1815
227 Slaves & Slavery
228 Hawkins Plantation & Elyton, the county Seat
230 Corner Store in Elyton (Mudd, Walker, Smith)
231 Courthouse & Tavern
232 Newspaperrs
233 Churches
234 Elyton Pioneers
263 The Journey from Elyton to Hagood’s Crossroads Georgia Rd.
264 Ruhama - soon after the Creek Indian wars were settled, Thomas Barton, Williamson Hawkins, Old Father Bayliss & James Cunningham moved to Ruhama.
264 Oak Grove
265 Trussville & Roebuck’s
266 Roebucks - north of Roebucks house....on the right was large white frame house belonging to James Hawkins.
266 Backroad to Jonesboro
267 Caverns
268 Clift’s Mill and Rutledge Springs
269 Indian Legend (Toadvine)
270 Greenes - Hagoods Crossroads
271 Hanby’s Flatboats, David Hanby founder of the coal trade in the Warrior Field (around Turkey Creek)
275 Mills in the Valley - Cunningham Creek
277 General Jackson’s Volunteers
278 Creek Indian War
279 David Crocket in Jones Valley
281 soldiers under Andrew Jackson who later came to Jones Valley......Thomas & John Barton.....Benjamin Tarrant, John Hanby....James Cunningham.
281 Land Sales
282 Stagecoaches
284 Hill Farmers
285 The Jacks’ Place - James Jacks
288 Indian Trail
52 Pre-Civil War Transportation
53 Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad
54 North and South Alabama Railroad
57 Oxmoor
60 The South and North Railroad after the war
62 Founding of Birmingham
62 James R. Powell
