Appalachian History

“Boiling Spring”The Anniston Times, December 30,1932by Bessie Coleman Robinson Our county abounds in beautiful springs, but no other surpasses Boiling Spring in beauty. It is located on the Manning Christian Place, originally called the Caver Place, situated in the Choccolocco Valley a few miles east of Oxford. In early days this spring gushed forth from [...]

Many years before the white man penetrated the forests of Alabama, there dwelt a happy, thrifty tribe of Indians in the central portion of the present county of Talladega [ed.- Conchardees, of the Creek, or Muskogee, nation]. The chief of this tribe was the great Choccolocco; a man of vast possessions.  He had only one [...]