Wiregrass Archives

Founded 2002 at Troy University Dothan Campus, Alabama. Collects papers and records of Wiregrass residents and institutions. Coordinates local research.

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Wiregrass Archives director receives Troy's Wallace D. Malone Award for Outstanding Faculty, 2022-23 https://t.co/0Nja2du1Io

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1925 June 20: One of the most decorated U.S. soldiers in WWII Audie Murphy was born https://t.co/ycKHcWWwUD Here he is in the old Tutwiler Hotel during a 1954 visit to #Birmingham You can read about him in #Alabama at https://t.co/wuHaNIQrVE #OTD Died 28 May 1971

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Join ADAH collections archivist Jaimie Kicklighter for the latest episode of Archives/Five. She'll discuss a scrapbook from Arthur Shores, a prominent Birmingham attorney during the Civil Rights movement.
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On this final day of #WHM, we introduce Addie Wilson, prize winning songwriter who penned many operettas, and locally-prominent pianist (she played for the Rotary Club monthly for 35 years). In 1914 she wrote "Welcome to Dothan" for that year's fair.

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Today's #WHM tweet is about Ruth Stewart, another nursing student at Dothan's Frasier Ellis Hospital, ca. 1940. She graduated from New Brockton High School ca. 1937 and as a nurse in 1941. She married upon graduation and never practiced. Her papers have a nursing class note pad.

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Today's #WHM tweet concerns Nettie Louise Youmans Towner, who trained as a nurse at Dothan's Frasier-Ellis Hospital then served in the US Army during WW2. She wrote a memoir about her life in Donalsonville, GA, nurse training, WW2 service, and the first post-war year.

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Marjorie Simons is today's #WHM focus. She was a life-long resident of Dothan who provided these three pictures (plus others) to a community scanning project in 2003. Her elementary school portraits are common only after the mid-20th century.

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Today's #WHM tweet is another pix from a National Peanut Festival parade (no date) in Dothan, AL, showing baton twirlers leading a marching band on N. Foster Street at Troy Ave.

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Today's #WHM tweet concerns Helen Cook Lamb. Her papers form part of our Register Family Papers (RG9). Lamb worked as secretary to Judge Warren Jones of the US 5th Circuit Ct. and authored multiple short stories posthumously published as The Deep South: Home of the Y'Alls, 2004.

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Today's #WHM tweet celebrates the youthful scholarship (in 2007) of Jessica Price at Dothan's Carver Magnet School. Her research project and interview with Tuskegee Airman Sherman Rose garnered her 214 of a possible 100 points (you read that right) from her teacher.

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Today's #WHM image is a daguerreotype ca. 1860 of Julie Armstrong Peterman, who married Benjamin Peterman in 1859, then moved to the Dothan area of Henry County, AL and later helped establish this city.

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#WHM today introduces Nell B. Hodges of the small community of Grimes, AL (N. of Dothan) who privately published two memoirs in the 1980s, "Another Time, Another Place," and "Cotton Pickin' Memories."

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#WHM Group photo for Women's History Month, ca. 1985. Queen Amos Second row, left, as Sojourner Truth, Fort Rucker or Maxwell AFB, AL. From the Queen Amos Collection, https://t.co/OpazQPxUfU

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#WHM Civic parades and festivals featuring women have long been problematic. The National Peanut Festival is no exception. This float is from an NPF parade in the 1960s, advertising a chiropractic service.

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#WHM Today's tweet is a photo of Ms. Kitty Pate of Ashford, AL, fishing at Bazemore Mill Pond in Houston Co., AL, no date. Photo provided by Margaret Pate Rhyne. Finding aid https://t.co/o643ZiDKBQ

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#WHM photo of the graduating class from WAC basic training, Ft. McClellan, AL, 1969. From the Queen Amos Collection (she's on back row, 4th from left), https://t.co/OpazQPgiRk

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#WHM tweet for today introduces Annette Shirah (d. 2014), long time resident of Midland City, AL, and president of its historical society. She wrote Midland City: The First Hundred Years for the town centennial in 1990. Collection finding aid: https://t.co/TgqctrnPnz

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Barbara Everett is today's #WHM subject. She is a SE Alabama businesswoman and educator. As the spouse of Rep. Terry Everett (R-AL2, ret), she used her clout to promote causes like Habitat for Humanity and breast cancer research. Collection finding aid: https://t.co/tpCcodNQgJ

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1969 Mar 11: Fellini film “Satyricon” with #Alabama author Eugene Walter playing a translator was released in the U.S. https://t.co/aNcotLBqtj #OTD This photo shows Walter in Paris. Born in #Mobile, Walter wrote "The Untidy Pilgrim" etc