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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.
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Preaching Standing on his Knees
Hidden gemReverend J.D. Anthony says the early Alabama settlement had no churches, no Sabbath observance, and rough log meeting houses.
Jan 27, 2020·23m·1 clip - 2
Kendall Lewis Tavern
Dec 24, 2019·14m - 3
Pray all day, fight all night
Hidden gemElisha Mosley could "pray all day" and "fight all night," according to Thomas Simpson Woodward.
Dec 21, 2019·21m·1 clip - 4
The suspicious history of Blue Springs
Nov 22, 2019·14m - 5
History Along Highway 10
Hidden gemBarber County produced six elected governors, plus Lurleen Burns Wallace and George Corley Wallace.
Nov 17, 2019·17m·1 clip - 6
The Alabama Indestructible Doll
Oct 30, 2019·17m - 7
Elberta, German colony and Dinosaurs
Oct 12, 2019·19m - 8
The Story of Gees Bend
Oct 1, 2019·15m - 9
Great Hartselle bank robbery is still an unsolved mystery
Sep 21, 2019·9m - 10
Freedmen’s Bureau - The First Step to Rebuild
Sep 6, 2019·18m - 11
Alabama's First People
Hidden gemA 96-by-48-foot stone mound in Oxford survived development through University of Alabama intervention.
Aug 16, 2019·19m·1 clip - 12
The Legend of Kin Moony
Hidden gemAlabama Grist Mill examines a political feud near Montgomery that began around 1836, when Whig and Democratic factions competed over elected militia leadership.
Aug 8, 2019·21m·1 clip - 13
The Married CCC began in Alabama
Aug 1, 2019·13m - 14
The historic village laid out in the form of a liberty bell
Jul 17, 2019·22m - 15
This is where Alabama began
Jul 12, 2019·21m - 16
The history of Fountain Heights
Jul 9, 2019·23m - 17
Only loose women will vote
Jul 5, 2019·29m - 18
Geronimo in Alabama?
Jul 3, 2019·14m - 19
When the Indian fires were going out
The hosts discuss a historical marker in Tuscaloosa about a Native American speech during the Trail of Tears, exploring different perspectives on the event.
Jun 28, 2019·25m - 20
The long history of the town of Arley
Jun 25, 2019·17m - 21
Ariton, a unique birth to a town
The hosts discuss the history of the small town of Ayrton, Alabama, highlighting its unique origins and multiple name changes.
Jun 21, 2019·27m - 22
What is the meaning of "1232" on the Alabama Stone?
Jun 19, 2019·16m - 23
Birmingham woman’s invention that people still use to this day
Jun 15, 2019·24m - 24
A fateful conversation
Jun 12, 2019·14m - 25
The Angel of the Prisons
Jun 4, 2019·18m - 26
Early Alabama Roads
May 31, 2019·14m - 27
Fairhope - a single tax town
May 29, 2019·14m - 28
The Burning of the University of Alabama
May 25, 2019·16m - 29
Preacher Glenn sparks the foundation of Auburn University
May 21, 2019·22m - 30
Rise and Fall of The Ghost town of Bellefonte
Hosts Mike and Donna Causey discuss the ghost town of Belafonte, Alabama, and its defunct nuclear power plant.
May 17, 2019·28m - 31
Deliver Me to Blocton
May 14, 2019·18m - 32
The Melting Pot of Birmingham
May 11, 2019·14m - 33
A Montgomery corner with a long history
May 7, 2019·15m - 34
The man called Railroad Bill
May 3, 2019·20m - 35
Legend of gold buried in Shipp's Pond
Apr 30, 2019·14m - 36
The Confederados - Old South in Brazil
Apr 23, 2019·15m - 37
Hackleburg Strong - A Story of Resilience
Apr 20, 2019·19m - 38
24 Columns - Forks of Cypress
Apr 19, 2019·15m - 39
Brierfield Boom Town!
Apr 10, 2019·21m - 40
Family Feud goes to the Supreme Court
Mar 23, 2019·15m - 41
The Tornado Outbreak of 1932
Mar 19, 2019·17m - 42
The Oldest Alabamian
Mar 16, 2019·12m - 43
Patriots in South Alabama form their own independent country
Mar 12, 2019·16m - 44
How eating grits once caused a plague in Alabama
The hosts discuss a historical plague in Alabama linked to eating grits and share the Ten Commandments of Grits.
Mar 9, 2019·24m - 45
How Silverhill Alabama was founded and named
Mar 5, 2019·13m - 46
The Alabama city almost named Muddtown
Mar 2, 2019·16m - 47
A Real Pochahontas Milly Francis
Feb 27, 2019·13m - 48
The Ten Commandments of Cornbread
Feb 23, 2019·15m - 49
Devastating Explosion in Mobile after the Civil War
Feb 20, 2019·17m - 50
'Tis the survivor that dies
Feb 16, 2019·18m