Manasco Cemetery is located in Walker County, Alabama, tucked away in the beautiful countryside surrounding Townley. Townley sits west of Jasper, northeast of Fayette and surrounded by other small towns such as Carbon Hill, Glen Allen, Berry, and even the eponymous Manasco, one of Alabama’s many ghost towns. Manasco Cemetery is a small family cemetery […]
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“God’s War” by Christopher Tyerman knocks all other Crusade books off of the shelf! It’s 922 pages of amazing page-turns; I mean when’s the last time you read a 900 page book without some sort of latent fear of actually trying to finish it? Tyerman’s “God’s War” is both macroscopic as well as microscopic in
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Put simply, the “shiny object syndrome” is about distractions and fractions. It’s where you encounter distractions and only accomplish a fraction of what you should have. Sadly, only a fraction of your potential. Shiny Object Syndrome, as its name denotes, is the loss of focus in being distracted not by objects of worth, but of
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The Hermitage is the mansion of Andrew Jackson, acclaimed General and 7th President of the United States. Andrew Jackson’s figure stands as a towering monument to American history that can never be torn down; his home, The Hermitage, is equally illustrious. At over 1000 acres, The Hermitage is truly a breathtaking place to visit. Nestled
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This is the obituary of General Manasco, aka., General John Manasco of Alabama. It is not my telling but is my transcription of a newspaper article that was published on March 27th, 1895 and again republished on February 15th, 1922, both in the “Mountain Eagle,” a local newspaper in Jasper, Alabama. The 1922 “Mountain Eagle”
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Dameron Marsh in Virginia is a 316 acre promontory that lies along the northeastern point of the Northern Neck of Virginia just above where the Rappahannock River empties into the Chesapeake. It is a beautifully serene wildlife area and nature preserve that takes some driving to get to, but definitely worth the trip. Especially if
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Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819 and 2019 marks the Alabama Bicentennial: 200 years of being a state. It’s time to celebrate! Whether you’re “built by Bama,” a Southerner, or a proud American, 200 years statehood for any state is something to sink your teeth into and reflect on. Our American history is
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One of the coolest things I’ve ever come across while doing genealogy was to discover that my 4th great-grandfather founded his own town in 1879 – Manasco, Alabama – which is now a ghost town! It’s not just a ghost town because I said it is, it’s on a historic register of American Ghost Towns
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My 2018 Reading List has been very much historical. I’ve focused on the histories of Colonial America and Medieval Europe for the most part as well as a melange of other interesting tidbits. A lot of what I read came from my travels to Canada, California, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama this year. One of the
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There is a vein of political truth that begins in the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee and runs all the way down to Northern Alabama – specifically Walker, Winston, and Fayette Counties. This narrative is about the ideological connection between General Andrew Jackson and the Manasco families of Alabama and their sympathies during the Civil War.
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“The Debatable Land” by Graham Robb brings the historical drama! The author, almost by chance, uncovered one of Britain’s most enduring, and ironically, forgotten mysteries. The question is: should he have left it alone? I can’t say enough about this book in terms of its contribution to understanding the British Isles as a whole as
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