· August 7, 2026
Robert Jemison Jr.
Two different men share this name on this site, one generation apart. The elder Robert Jemison Jr. (1802-1871) was an […]
Glossary Type: Person
· August 7, 2026
Major Hayden
A former U.S. Army officer who moved to Blount County from south Alabama and settled the area before the Civil […]
· August 7, 2026
Delores Fort
A key advocate for organizing Smoke Rise’s residents, leading to the founding of the Smoke Rise Homeowners Association in 1995. […]
· August 7, 2026
Edward J. Bryan
Proprietor of Mont Eyrie Orchards, a roughly 2,600-acre peach and apple operation built starting in 1903, entirely dependent on the […]
· August 7, 2026
Robin Sterling
A North Alabama historian with over 30 years of research focused on Blount, Cullman, Winston, and Walker counties, and author […]
· August 7, 2026
Elbert Johnson
A Hanceville-based researcher who conducted his own cemetery survey work in 1965-66, a full generation before Robin Sterling’s fieldwork. His […]
· August 7, 2026
Rev. James Archibald Blackburn
Born circa 1759 in England to Benjamin and Mary Blackburn; died before 10 October 1831 in Jefferson County, Alabama. Enlisted […]
· August 7, 2026
Sion L. Blythe
Born 1781 in western North Carolina, ordained at 23, and a founder of the French Broad Association (six churches, Buncombe […]
· August 7, 2026
Andrew Aldridge
In the spring of 1817, Andrew Aldridge (also spelled “Alldridge”) discovered a volunteer apple seedling on his property, grown from […]
· August 7, 2026
John Fowler
John Fowler, who “lived on the main road to Blount Springs,” built a commercial apple orchard of about one acre, […]