Scotty Kirkland
Retrospect: Birmingham’s first banker
Charles Linn established the National Bank of Birmingham, becoming Birmingham's first banker.
Retrospect: First Harvest
A farmer, a banker and the power of the peanut changed Coffee County forever, as memorialized in this bronze panel at Alabama Bicentennial Park.
Retrospect: Alabama’s Loom Towns
Avondale Mills was founded in Birmingham in 1897 but at its height employed 7,000 workers throughout the state.
The Yuille Family & the Mobile Steam Bakery
Started by Gavin Yuille, and maintained by two subsequent generations, Yuille’s Mobile Steam Bakery survived for nearly a century.Â
Retrospect: Construction of the Alabama Midland Railroad
In the 1880s, the Alabama Midland Railroad took shape. It stretched from Montgomery to Bainbridge, Georgia, cutting through the Wiregrass.
Retrospect: Alabama’s Daniel Pratt and his early cotton gins
Prattville namesake Daniel Pratt made his name in cotton gins
Retrospect: Selling Alabama stone
The Moretti-Harrah Marble Company's championing of Sylacauga marble. Pictured is the interior of the U.S. Supreme Court building.
Retrospect: The founding of Anniston
Samuel Noble's Woodstock Iron Company of Alabama ushered in a model of the "New South."
Retrospect: A look at the history of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank
Founded in Birmingham in 1890, the Alabama Penny Savings Bank was the first financial institution in the state-owned and operated by African Americans
The Alabama origin of Lehman Bros.
In New York harbor on a mid-September day in 1844, a long voyage to America came to an end for a 21-year-old Bavarian man...