Author: Lux Ferre

The Alabama legislature founded Auburn University on February 1, 1856. East Alabama Male College, as it was originally called, was operated by the Methodist Church.…

One of Huntsville’s most historically significant homes is the Weeden House. It was built in 1819 in the Federalist style for Huntsville entrepreneur Henry C.…

Sturdivant Hall was built between 1852 and 1856 for Col. Edward T. Watts. The Greek Revival mansion was designed by architect Thomas Helm Lee, a…

The Spence-Moon House was built in 1834 on eighty acres of land for James H. Spence. Artisans from Connecticut and New Hampshire built this house…

The Richards DAR House was built by a steamboat captain from Maine. Charles G. Richards married Caroline Elizabeth Steele in 1842. Before long, the itinerant…

The Dunning House was built by George Dunning in 1897. He was an entrepreneur who once owned several businesses in Thomasville, including a livery stable…

Francis Strother Lyon (1800-82), the first owner of Bluff Hall, was a prominent lawyer and politician in West Alabama. He was a member of one…

The tranquility of small-town life in Cuba was shattered on May 22, 1978, when two fugitives from an Oklahoma prison—Eugene Dennis and Michael Lancaster, both…

Julian Ennis built the house on Baldwin Hill in 1901. Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, people began telling ghost stories about…

Attalla – Attalla Wood Bridge – Some people say that a school bus full a kids fell of the bridge and went into the lake…