By Debbie Wilson Executive director, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio What a year! Everything slowed down or came to a standstill all over the world. But not the music. Music continued
By Julia McGee M.A. in public history from the University of North Alabama, December, 2019 Former MSNHA graduate assistant (Text from “Women of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area”) The
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Did you know that an Olympic winner was born here in northwest Alabama? That future Olympic athlete and winner, named Jesse Owens, was born Sept. 12, 1913, in
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Did you know that a Civil War fort became the site of the first accredited high school for African Americans? In 1862, while Union forces
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Did you know that the “Father of the Blues” was born and raised right in the heart of the Shoals area? William Christopher Handy was born
By Lee FreemanFlorence-Lauderdale Public Library,Local History-Genealogy Department Throughout the late 1820s and 1830s, there was pressure on the Alabama legislature to abolish slavery, with Quaker agents buying cotton that wasn’t
By Lee FreemanFlorence-Lauderdale Public Library,Local History-Genealogy Department “The Truth is Out There” was the tagline of hit TV show “The X-Files,” in which FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Ducovny) and
By Jeffrey R. Bibbee, Ph.D Over the last several months, I have had a chance to tackle those pesky home improvement projects – cleaning out the junk drawers, tackling the
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Could you imagine Muscle Shoals becoming the “Detroit of the South”? Well, this almost occurred. Just before the end of World War I, two nitrate plants were completed
By Carrie Crawford Direction, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Within the six counties (Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and Morgan) that make up the MSNHA, recreational opportunities abound! Because of the COVID-19
By Tori Shaw, MSNHA graduate assistant When you buy an historic home, perhaps the most significant challenge is the process of restoration. When we think of restoring historic homes, however,
By Tori Shaw MSNHA graduate assistant hether you are simply interested in finding the date it was built or you hope to uncover the full history of your home, there
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