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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Historic Alabama: Night moves
A snapshot of Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. in Decatur in 1942.
The early years of ice cream in Sylacauga
A building in Sylacauga has been home to decades of ice-cream manufacturing, most recently Blue Bell.