· August 7, 2026
John Shannon (John Ogee)
A half-blood Creek who governed a refugee Creek colony of about two hundred people, settled in Brown’s Valley by Cherokee […]
Glossary Type: Person
· August 7, 2026
Joseph V. Musgrove
Signed as “J.V. Musgrove” on an 1876 newspaper advertisement for the “Great Southern Cave” at Bangor, running organized tours more […]
· August 7, 2026
David Lafayette McPherson
Born 1872, died 1938. Married Lugenia G. Reid, George W. Reid‘s daughter, “at Reid’s Gap, in Blount County, Alabama” on […]
· August 7, 2026
Colonel Richard Brown
A Cherokee colonel who, after the Creek War of 1812, established a series of settlements in the valley that came […]
· August 7, 2026
Tooni
Stooka‘s adoptive stepfather, who had raised him. Sent by a Cherokee council as one of two unarmed men to bring […]
· August 7, 2026
Col. J.F.B. Jackson
The man behind the Jackson House hotel at Blount Springs, born 1832, died 1912. Married twice - Matilda C. Morris […]
· August 7, 2026
Philip Henson
A Southern Union spy from Blount Springs, born 1827, died 1911. After the war, Ulysses S. Grant asked him to […]
· August 7, 2026
Mary Gordon Duffee
Born 1844 in Tuscaloosa County to Matthew Duffee and Martha Allison Gillespie Duffee; died 1920. Known as the Hermit of […]
· August 7, 2026
Zelma Clyde Tidwell
Born 1902 in Locust Fork, Blount County; died 1987. Built or helped build nearly every covered bridge Blount County ever […]
· August 7, 2026
Stooka
An anti-cession Cherokee remembered for swimming the Tallapoosa River during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to steal canoes for Cherokee […]