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The Alabama Grist Mill by Alabama Pioneers is a podcast to highlight historical Alabama with stories and history from the Alabama Pioneers website.
Clio shifted toward the railroad; you may never pass a tiny town name quite so quickly again.
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A weathered local account of Alabama settlement, frontier neighbors, and religious life in the Coosa region.
Alabama Grist Mill frames early Alabama settlement as a story of exposure, quick adjustment, and tense closeness. Mike Causey and co-host Donna Causey move from pioneers enduring cold, rain, camp life, and sparse shelter to the aid they received from Native Americans, including…
A holiday-season Alabama podcast turns civic commemoration into a measured conversation about memory, Native American history, and compromise.
Alabama Grist Mill frames its holiday-season signoff around Alabama's 200th birthday, then turns that civic moment toward the harder work of contested memory. Mike Causey and Donna Causey discuss the December 14, 2019 celebration, Bicentennial Park's 16 monuments, and T.S.
A measured Alabama road-trip review, with Clio's railroad-era move and public-memory landmarks giving Highway 10 its historical weight.
History Along Highway 10 follows an Alabama road into local memory, using Barbour County to frame stories of governors, politics, and George Wallace's birthplace in Clio.
Black Hills history, told on location.
Vegas history with a barstool pulse.
Connecticut history with national echoes.
Texas history, sourced and road-tested.
Maine history, widened through public talks.
Reverend J.D. Anthony says the early Alabama settlement had no churches, no Sabbath observance, and rough log meeting houses.
Alabama Grist Mill uses Thomas Simpson Woodward’s June 13, 1858 letter to explain the Creek-countryman world around Fort Hawkins, the Creek Agency, and Fort Mitchell.
Barber County produced six elected governors, plus Lurleen Burns Wallace and George Corley Wallace.
A 96-by-48-foot stone mound in Oxford survived development through University of Alabama intervention.
Alabama Grist Mill examines a political feud near Montgomery that began around 1836, when Whig and Democratic factions competed over elected militia leadership.
The hosts discuss a historical marker in Tuscaloosa about a Native American speech during the Trail of Tears, exploring different perspectives on the event.
The hosts discuss the history of the small town of Ayrton, Alabama, highlighting its unique origins and multiple name changes.
Hosts Mike and Donna Causey discuss the ghost town of Belafonte, Alabama, and its defunct nuclear power plant.
The hosts discuss a historical plague in Alabama linked to eating grits and share the Ten Commandments of Grits.