Wiregrass Archives Director Dr. Marty Olliff is featured on TROY's newest podcast.
TROY Public Radio’s latest podcast features the history, culture and people of Alabama’s Wiregrass Region.
“It Came from the Archives,” a popular feature on the Troy.Today blog made its podcast debut in June with its first episode, “Troy University’s Origin Story” featuring Wiregrass Archives Director Dr. Marty Olliff and hosted by Greg Phillips and centering on A.A….
The first freight train through Dothan on 'The Midland' railway, an effort to relocate commerce in the Wiregrass away from Columbus, Ga.
[Note: A longer version of this article appears in the June 2022 issue of Business Alabama magazine.]
by Scotty Kirkland
In the 1880s, a group of investors created the first railroad to traverse the rich farmland and timber country of the Alabama Wiregrass. Armed with financial support from one of the largest railroad tycoons of the era,…
Sometimes, an item buried in a collection is all a researcher needs to launch a tale. A pair of ca. 1982 photos of the Houston Memorial Library bookmobile are responsible for today’s post.
Doug Snellgrove Photographs, RG 099, Wiregrass Archives
Bookmobiles are 20th century ways for city-based libraries to serve rural patrons. Bookmobiles harken back to 1902,…
Mayor Larry Register presents key to City of Dothan to President Reagan in July 1986. (Wiregrass Archives)
Former state senator (1970-74) and Dothan mayor (1987-89) Larry Register was one of the first donors to and friends of the Wiregrass Archives.
He passed away on Monday, November 29, 1921.
Shortly after the Wiregrass Archives opened in 2002, Mr. Register donated 15 cubic feet of family papers that covered many of his interests such…
