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Retrospect: Thomas Eastin and the early days of Alabama’s press

Thomas Eastin launched The Halcyon and Tombeckbe Advertiser in 1815.

Historic Alabama: Raising the Roof

The Skyline Farms project was a cooperative farming experiment.

Retrospect: The cotton kingdom of Isidor Weil

Isidor and Herman Weil launched a cotton brokerage that would grow to one of the world's largest.

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Historic Alabama: Model Business

Under construction in 1960 is the chapel at Tuskegee University.

Retrospect: The French artisan who helped shape Alabama’s early identity

Mobile's poet, jeweler and pioneer Jean Simon Chaudron counted among his clients the nation's founding fathers.

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Historic Alabama: Building Faith

Under construction in 1960 is the chapel at Tuskegee University.

Retrospect: The history of Holt’s Central Iron & Coal Co.

Holt's Central Iron & Coal Co. installed a foundry on the shores of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

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