Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

The Alabama Department of Archives and History – The First Publicly Funded State Archieve Agency

Hamilton Historical Records
The Alabama State Archives building.

Thomas McAdory Owen, a Alabama lawyer, proposed a bill to the Alabama state legislature that would establish a public archives agency.

Photography of Thomas McDory Owen.

In 1901, the Alabama Department of Archives and History was founded and became the first publicly funded state archives agency in the United States.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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