Event: 10th Annual Old Federal Road Seminar

Start Time: Event Type: Genealogy Workshop

Location: Old Monroe County Courthouse, Monroeville

Registration: $30 (includes box lunch)

Event Website: http://www.tokillamockingbird.com

Sponsor: Monroe County Heritage Museum

Contact: mchm@frontiernet.net or 251-575-7433

Info:
8:00 a.m. – coffee, sign-in and late registration
8:30 a.m. –overview of events and introduction of attendees and presenters
9:00-noon – presentations on researching settlers along the old Federal Road

Gregory A. Waselkov
Professor of Anthropology, Director, Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama in Mobile
Current research on the old federal road and important historical sites related to this pioneer route through Southwest Alabama

Elizabeth C. Wells
Special Collection Librarian, Samford University Library, Birmingham
Sources to find the people, documenting Alabama ’s diverse settlement by Europeans and Native Americans using land, military, church, census and government records from territorial days to antebellum state status

Craig Remington
Director of the Cartography Lab, Department of Geography, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Display and discussion Copies of early maps of Alabama, including parts of the old federal road, and early Claiborne and discuss them with us. He will also discuss the large collection of maps he was assembled and his production of the Alabama Historic Atlas series he has produced and is maintaining.

Noon – carpool from the old Monroe County Courthouse via U.S.Highway 84 west to Perdue Hill to the old Masonic Lodge. Box lunches will be served there to all who have pre-registered. Following lunch, we will have time to tour the Masonic Lodge and the William Barrett Travis home nearby.

1:00-3:00 p.m. If weather conditions are tolerable, we expect to drive to a nearby site in the vicinity of Claiborne to view an archeological site evaluation by Dr. Waselkov and his students. If weather is unfavorable, we have alternate plans for a presentation on the War of 1812 at the Masonic Lodge, followed by a panel discussion by the presenters of the topics covered.