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Lee County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • The Auburn First Baptist Church ; 1838-1988
  • Auburn United Methodist Church, 1837-1987 : a history of a great church and the people who made it that way
  • Auburn sweet Auburn : history, stories, and epitaphs of Pine Hill Cemetery, 1836-2010
  • Cemetery at Waverly in Lee County, Alabama
  • Church and family cemeteries, Lee County, Alabama
  • Confederate soldiers buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Auburn, Alabama : a paper delivered before the Admiral Semmes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in Pine Hill Cemetery
  • The Eli Stroud Graveyard, Lee County, Salem, Alabama
  • A history of the Methodist church : Auburn, Alabama, 1836-1944
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  • Auburn : loveliest village of the plain
  • Auburn, a pictorial history
  • Catalogue of the officers and alumni of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn Ala., 1872-1911. Prepared under the direction of the faculty
  • From the backbooth at Chappy's : stories of the South: football, politics, religion, and more
  • From the desk of David Housel : a collection of Auburn stories
  • Game of my life. Auburn Tigers : memorable stories of Tigers football
  • A generous life : W. James Samford, Jr.
  • Glimpses into the past from my grandfather's trunk
  • Haunted Auburn and Opelika
  • The heritage of Lee County, Alabama
  • A hero's walk : the World War II journey of Lt. B.B. Darnell
  • The history of Opelika and her agricultural tributary territory : embracing more particularly Lee and Russell Counties from the earliest settlement to the present date
  • Homemaker, a mere one-liner : a 70 year history of homemakers in Lee County, Alabama, 1916-1986
  • In the shadow of cotton : a childhood memoir
  • I see the town
  • Keeping the faith : ordinary people, extraordinary lives, a memoir
  • Lee County and her forebears
  • Lee County : how it all began
  • Lee County jokes 100 years ago; a case study in Reconstruction humor in Alabama
  • "Lest we forget" : a history of African Americans of Auburn, Alabama
  • Little devil in me : a collection of stories told by Husky Kirkwood
  • No place like home : an architectural study of Auburn, Alabama : the first 150 years
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  • We believed : a lifetime of Auburn football. Volume 1: 1975-1998
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