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Etowah County
Census Records
  • The 1870 census of DeKalb County, Alabama, and the section of DeKalb County that became Etowah County, Alabama in 1868
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Etowah County 1870 index
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • 97 Etowah County, Alabama cemeteries
  • Church roll book, Samson Avenue Church of Christ, Gadsden, Alabama
  • First Baptist Church history : Gadsden, Alabama, 1855-1985
  • Forrest Cemetery Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama, 1872-1998
  • The history of Altoona-Walnut Grove Cemetery
  • History of Old Harmony Baptist Church : 1831-1963
  • Index of cemetery survey, Etowah County, Alabama
  • Little known burial sites and cemeteries Etowah County Alabama : Whites, Blacks and Indians, includes a few from nearby counties (Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Marshall and St. Clair)
  • Rest and vision : images and remembrances of Sumatanga's first 60 years
  • Tales from Altoona's cemeteries : volume I: 1863-1943
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  • 100 years of Altoona : from coal to cotton
  • 400 years of pioneers and patriots : the settling of Northeast Alabama and establishment of Etowah County
  • An Alabama boy and the birth of Silicon Valley : the autobiography of Ernest Jerry Collins
  • Baptist Memorial Hospital : yesterday & today
  • Black creek : southern Lookout Mountain
  • Boaz builds by biographies, 1878-1983 : a project of the Boaz Historical Society, factual, fictional, fascinating
  • The Boaz heritage : a centennial history of Boaz, Alabama and vicinity
  • Daddy poured the coffee
  • Dead towns of Alabama
  • Early history of Northeast Alabama and incidentally of Northwest Georgia ...
  • Etowah County
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  • First families of St. Clair County and Northeast Alabama
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  • Gadsden, Alabama : stories of the Great Depression
  • Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
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  • Gadsden, Alabama, a well balanced city : industry, education, agriculture
  • Gadsden Public Library : 100 years of service
  • Haints, haunts and hullabaloos : Etowah and surrounding counties
  • Haunted Etowah County, Alabama
  • The heritage of Etowah County, Alabama
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  • A history of Etowah County, Alabama
  • The History of Etowah County index
  • A history of Hokes Bluff, Alabama
  • The history of Hokes Bluff and surrounding areas
  • History of Walnut Grove, Alabama : Etowah County
  • How little Annie got to be the matriarch : a memoir
  • Keener, Alabama, a history : Etowah County
  • A little book about Gadsden, Alabama
  • The place names of Calhoun and Etowah counties, Alabama
  • Portrait of a city : an informal history of Gadsden, Alabama, 1846-1996
  • Samuel Sulser, pioneer of Gadsden, Alabama, and allied families
  • A study of the United Textile Workers of America in a cotton mill in a medium-sized southern industrial city : labor revolt in Alabama, 1934
  • "Through the mill" / Dwight Manufacturing Company
  • Treasured memories of the Turners : about the families of William Basil Turner (1814 Ga. - 1895 Ala.) and wife, Nancy (Haney) Lourana Garner (1815 Ga. - 1853 Ga.) and their son, William Hilliard Turner (1850 Ga. - 1922 Ala.) and his wife, Sarah Emeline Carnes (1853 Ala. - 1930 Ala.) who lived in "The Cove" NE of Walnut Grove, Etowah Co., Ala.
Court Records
  • Abstracts of probate court files, 1866-1900 : (wills & administrations) : Etowah County, Alabama : established as Baine County on December 7, 1866. Abolished December 3, 1867. County restored and renamed Etowah on December 1, 1868
Land Records
  • Etowah County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Etowah Co.)
  • Perspective Map of the City of Gadsden, Alabama (1897)
  • Tenements, Dwight Manufacturing Company, Gadsden, Alabama (east section) (1942)
  • Tenements, Dwight Manufacturing Company, Gadsden, Alabama (west section) (1942)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Marriage records, 1867-1880, Etowah County, Alabama
  • Marriages of Etowah County, Alabama prior to 1900
  • Ten years of marriages, Etowah County, AL
Military History & Records
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • John Wisdom "citizen-soldier."
  • Streight's foiled raid on the Western & Atlantic Railroad : Emma Sansom's courage and Nathan Bedford Forrest's pursuit
Newspaper Abstracts
  • The Gadsden times, Gadsden, Alabama
  • That's the way it was
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