Genealogy
Hot AC, topics fill pages, minds
Ten years ago I was working at The Brewton Standard, and I remember a lot of stories that ...
Features
Memories of all kinds are found inside the pages
There were several news stories on the front page of the newspaper in 2009. The paper, dated May ...
Genealogy
Where’d the good service go?
Brewton has changed quite a bit in the last 25 years, and one only has to pick up ...
Brewton
Group learns city’s history
The downtown park — and mural — came alive Thursday for a group of Brewton students as Leon ...
Archives
Digging for history: EB site excavation begins
A field along Shoffner Street in East Brewton can typically be seen filled with young boys and girls ...
Genealogy
Confederate burial ceremony revived
After a few mishaps and wrong turns, I was able to find Mason Cemetery, located off U.S. 29, ...
Genealogy
Town has interesting history
Let me tell you of another town in South Carolina. It is Orangeburg, the county seat of Orangeburg ...
Genealogy
Genealogy research helped with lists, records
Over the past several weeks I have been sharing records from the Confederate census. The information has been ...
Genealogy
Always have more than one source
My main reason for including information about the Confederate census was to show that different documents will sometime ...
Genealogy
Federal Road built as supply route
A couple of weeks ago I attended the September meeting of the Escambia County Historical Society and heard ...