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Colbert County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 5, 16, & 56)
  • A history of the First Presbyterian Church, Tuscumbia, Alabama : sesquicentennial observance, 1824-1974
  • Pickwick Landing reservoir cemeteries
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  • Alabama's city of Sheffield
  • Alabama's city of Tuscumbia
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  • Alabama's city of Sheffield
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  • America's greatest dam : Muscle Shoals, Alabama : description and pictorial illustration of Muscle Shoals
  • And this too! : Cherokee, Alabama
  • Colbertians : a history of Colbert County, Alabama, and some of its pioneer citizens before 1875
  • Black folktales of the Muscle Shoals : slavery to success
  • Cornbread and beans for breakfast : the misadventures of a boy growing up in the South during the thirties and forties
  • Cotton was king
  • The devil's backbone; the story of the Natchez Trace. With map and headpieces by the Dillons
  • The formative period of TVA : the Muscle Shoals project 1783-1916
  • The heritage of Colbert County, Alabama
  • A heritage to treasure : a history of the Old Chickasaw Nation of West Colbert County
  • Historic Muscle Shoals
  • Historic Muscle Shoals; a guide to places of historical interest in Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama
  • History of Muscle Shoals : with views of Wilson Dam
  • History of Tuscumbia, Alabama
  • Light through the leaves : the story of Ellen Barton
  • Locust Hill
  • The long journey home : a memoir
  • Lore of the river : the Shoals of long ago
  • Muscle Shoals Canal : life with the canalers
  • Muscle shoals legacy of fame
  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio : how the Swampers changed American music
  • Music and mystique in Muscle Shoals
  • My Colbert County families : Lanes, Prides, Goodloes, Rutlands, & Bartons
  • My recollections of Cherokee, Alabama
  • The Natchez Trace : a pictorial history
  • Olden times of Colbert & Franklin counties in Ala.
  • Olden times of Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co., AL & surrounding communities of Law. & Colbert counties
  • Presumption and burden of proof in situations of crisis : the Muscle Shoals debate, 1897-1933
  • The price they paid : desegregation in an African American community
  • Recall LaGrange : Alabama`s first college : bringing Alabama history to life
  • Rick Hall : my journey from shame to fame
  • Riverton : how this heritage came to be
  • Sheffield, Alabama: its present and future. With the story of Hinda's Cave; or, The Lost Tribes
  • Sheffield, city on the bluff, 1885-1985
  • Sheffield of to-day : a resume of her past, present, and great future
  • Skeletons in the closet : more true ghost stories of the Shoals area
  • Two hundred years at Muscle Shoals, being an authentic history of Colbert county, 1700-1900, with special emphasis on the stirring events of the early times
  • Tuscumbia : America's first frontier railroad town
  • A way through the wilderness : the Natchez Trace and the civilization of the southern frontier
Court Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 5, 16, & 56)
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 5, 16, & 56)
Land Records
  • Colbert County, Alabama, ancestral homesteads
  • Old land records of Colbert County, Alabama
  • The place names of Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Colbert Co.)
  • Muscle Shoals, Tenn. River, Little Muscle Shoals Division Sheet 2 (1882)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 5, 16, & 56)
  • Marriages 1877-1879, Colbert County, Alabama
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 5 & 16)
  • Newspaper clippings from the Colbert County, Alabama Leighton News : 1894-1903
  • Newspaper clippings from the Colbert County, Alabama Leighton News : 1904-1907
Periodicals
  • The Journal of Muscle Shoals history
  • Natchez Trace traveler
  • The River counties
  • Valley leaves
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