The inventiveness of Wiregrass residents are shown through official patents.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibition, SPARK! Places of Innovation, is touring Alabama in 2025-2026. Its recent visit to Dothan’s Landmark Park inspired this look at the inventiveness of Wiregrass residents as recorded by the US Patent Office.
Although the “basic search” function on the Patent Public Search website is ill-suited for geographical searches, I uncovered at least 370…
"Capturing Black History in the Wiregrass" features nine video interviews with Dothan residents to help preserve local history.
The Wiregrass Archives at Troy University Dothan and Mit Kirkland of the Wiregrass Black History Channel have completed a collaborative project funded by the Society of American Archivists. Titled “Capturing Black History in the Wiregrass,” the project features nine video interviews with African American residents of Dothan who lived through the era of racial segregation and desegregation.
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The Wiregrass Archives at Troy University-Dothan recently completed the Alabama Historical Marker Digital Enhancement Project, a grant-funded project that created a public-facing digital map for historical markers across the state.
A partnership between the Alabama Historical Association Marker Committee, Alabama Heritage magazine and the Encyclopedia of Alabama, the project created a digital map of 218 Alabama Historical Association…
Troy University is one of four organizations working to digitize Alabama historical markers thanks to a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
Troy University is one of four partners to be awarded a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance to begin a digital enhancement project of Alabama Historical Association (AHA) markers.
The project’s end result will produce a publicly-facing digital map that displays “click-over” popups showing marker locating information, marker text, one or more related photographs and…
