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Lowndes County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
  • Minutes of Sandy Ridge Presbyterian Church : three miles east of Fort Deposit
Census Records
  • 1850 U.S. census, Lowndes County, Alabama
  • 1860 census, Lowndes County, Alabama
Court Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
County / City / Family Histories
  • Ante-bellum floating palaces of the Alabama River and the "good old times in Dixie,"
  • Bloody Lowndes : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt
  • Collirene, the Queen Hill
  • FBI file on the KKK murder of Viola Liuzzo [microform]
  • From the river bottom lands of 'Old Thornhill' to the hills of Steep Creek, Alabama
  • From Selma to sorrow : the life and death of Viola Liuzzo
  • The heritage of Lowndes County, Alabama
  • Historic assets : Lowndes County, Alabama
  • The informant : the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo
  • Lowndesboro's picturesque legacies
  • Lowndes County historical landmarks
  • Lowndes Court House; a chronicle of Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt village, 1820-1900
  • Lowndes Court House : a chronicle of Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt village, 1820-1900, Index
  • Memoirs of Fort Deposit
  • The penalty for success : my father was lynched in Lowndes County, Alabama
  • Rivers of history : life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama
  • The Selma campaign, 1963-1965 : the decisive battle of the civil rights movement
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
  • Death notices from The Prattville progress, 1890-1910
Land Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
  • Family maps of Lowndes County, Alabama : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more
  • Lowndes County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Lowndes Co.)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Lowndes Court House; a chronicle of Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt village, 1820-1900
  • Marriages of Lowndes County, Alabama, 1830-1872, unrecorded marriages found in vault : arranged alphabetically by surname of bride and groom
Military History & Records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
  • Thrilling reminiscences, facts and experiences of lieut. Geo. E. Reid : Company F, 23rd Regiment, Alabama Volunteers in the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Abstracts from Alabama newspapers (see vol. 1)
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (see vols. 102, 214, & 240)
  • Spirit of the times [microform]
Periodicals
  • Central Alabama Genealogical Society
  • Publications of the Lowndes County Historical Society
  • Spirit of the times [microform]
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