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May 21, 2018 Alabama / Creek nation / Folklore

The Sleeping Giant – an Indian Legend from Alabama

Records speak of the mountain as “The Giant at Rest” & “Resting Giant.” Mother Nature has lovingly covered him with earth, to protect him.

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H.D. Wilson, mayor of Childersburg, Alabama pointing, out the location of one of the expected federal housing

May 7, 2018 Alabama / Eminent domain victims

Here, then, is a group of dislocated people who know almost nothing except farming

Some few of these were making a new beginning and, where they could get some of the better land, were succeeding on a very moderate scale.

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