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Hale County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Baptists in Greensboro, Alabama
  • History of Carthage-Moundville Presbyterian Church
  • The History of the First United Methodist Church of Greensboro
  • St. Andrew's Church, Prairieville : an address
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  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Directory of Hale County, Alabama (white tax payers) : as compiled from the tax books
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  • The Alabama black McGruders
  • The Canebrake planters of Alabama : a collection of antebellum plantations, historical homes, and genealogy
  • Dead towns of Alabama
  • Disunion, war, defeat, and recovery in Alabama : the journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885
  • The Greene Springs School
  • Guarding Greensboro : a Confederate company and the making of a southern community
  • Hale County, Alabama : an inventory of significant and historic resources : a report compiled for the Cahaba Trace Commission
  • The heritage of Hale County, Alabama
  • Historic Hale County
  • History of Greensboro, Alabama from its earliest settlement
  • Kodachromes
  • Moundville
  • The Raglands, Wyatts and Parkers of Bibb, Hale & Tuscaloosa Counties, & Warrior, Alabama in the 1800's
  • Rants, raves, ruminations, and ramblifications : musings from a hamlet
  • Rural Studio at twenty : designing and building in Hale County, Alabama
  • The Turbervilles of Greensboro, Alabama : memories of a family
  • Walker Evans : kitchen corner
Court Records
  • Inventory of the county archives of Alabama (no. 33)
Land Records
  • Family maps of Hale County, Alabama : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more
  • Hale County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
  • Kaul Lumber Company, Kaul Land and Lumber Company, Sample Lumber Company : records, 1836-1966
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Hale Co.)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (Northeast section)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (Northwest section)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (East section)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (West section)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (Southeast section)
  • Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870 (Southwest section)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Hale County, Alabama marriage records, March 31, 1867 thru December 28, 1920
Military History & Records
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Guarding Greensboro : a Confederate company and the making of a southern community
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