This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Children’s Santa letters from Decatur and area
A long clipping collects many child readers writing Santa with requests for toys, dolls, wagons, bikes, tricycles, gun and bb shots, sewing machines, dishes, doll beds, and household items. Names include Ronnie Maner, Sandra, Helen, Nell, Freddie Collier, Fioris Smith, Elizabeth Jackson, John Harold Jackson, James Biles, Jane Barber, Betty Blackwell, Bobbie Kate Eubanks, Louise Eubanks, Wayne McMurray, Wayne Bryant, Linda Carolyn Brown, Alva Wallace Bryant, Elizabeth Anne Norris, Waymond Johnson, J Dutton, and others from Decatur Somerville Priceville and surrounding Alabama towns.