The Heritage of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | The Heritage of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Heritage Publishing Consultants |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Registers of births, etc |
ISBN | 9781891647642 |
A History of Sumter County, Alabama, Through 1886
Title | A History of Sumter County, Alabama, Through 1886 PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Roycraft Smith (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Sumter County (Ala.) |
ISBN |
History of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | History of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Lawrence |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Alabama |
ISBN |
Sumter County, Alabama
Title | Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph F. Stegall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780788407550 |
Given by Eugene Edge III.
Pioneer Families of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | Pioneer Families of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Nelle Morris Jenkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Alabama |
ISBN |
Sumter County
Title | Sumter County PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Brown |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467113379 |
Sumter County was founded on December 18, 1832, on land ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. Almost immediately, settlers began pouring in from Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. In the 19th and early-20th centuries, most of the residents were farmers; however, following the infestation of the boll weevil, many turned to raising cattle and growing timber. Every November, hundreds of hunters descend upon Sumter County in hopes of harvesting one of the thousands of deer that live on the rolling prairies and in the oak forests lining the Tombigbee River. With the help of Ruby Pickens Tartt, scores of ethnomusicologists, including John and Alan Lomax, traveled hundreds of miles to the red clay country of Sumter County in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s to record African American folk songs from people like Vera Hall and Dock Reed.
Alabama Records, Volume 132
Title | Alabama Records, Volume 132 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Alabama |
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