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Published every Saturday from February 1991 to April 1992 in the comic pages of the Birmingham News were TRUE TALES of Birmingham’s earliest pioneers. A project of the Birmingham Historical Society, these stories were then assembled in a book entitled True Tales of Birmingham. We will periodically be recapping these stories here! But if you want them all (and they make great children’s gifts), check out the book! Or subscribe to the blog if you don’t want to miss one. Here’s the story about one of Birmingham’s early educators. And you may recall that James R. Powell donated his salary as Birmingham’s mayor to establish the first school.

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The TRUE TALE of James R Powell

Published every Saturday from February 1991 to April 1992 in the Birmingham News were TRUE TALES of Birmingham’s earliest pioneers. A project of the Birmingham Historical Society, these stories were then assembled in a book entitled True Tales of Birmingham. We will periodically be recapping these stories here! But if you want them all (and they make great children’s gifts), check out the book! Or subscribe to the blog if you don’t want to miss one.

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Who were Birmingham’s early pioneers?

The last printed copy of The Birmingham News has now come and gone, but does anyone remember the special section, True Tales, published every Saturday from February 1991 to April 1992? A project of the Birmingham Historical Society, these stories were assembled in a book entitled True Tales of Birmingham and published in 1992. Here are a few pages…