The stories of Marengo County, AL
13 narrated audio stories from across Marengo County — hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore from its towns, landmarks, and back roads.
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A Grand Name on an Alabama Bluff
How Demopolis turned a bold French experiment into a lasting river town.
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When Napoleon’s Circle Reached the Tombigbee
How a French refugee experiment helped shape an Alabama river town.
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Where the Black Warrior Gives Its Name Away
A river junction that shaped movement, trade, and settlement in Alabama.
White Bluff
The Bluff That Made Demopolis
How a chalk bluff gave Demopolis its high, dry riverfront.
Bluff Hall
Bluff Hall and the Shape of Power
A Demopolis house reveals how wealth, family, and power took architectural form.
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How Napoleon Echoed Across an Alabama Frontier
A county name that carried Europe’s wars into Alabama.
Bluff Hall
What Bluff Hall Still Holds
A house that traces Demopolis’s rise, and its choice to remember.
Bluff Hall
A House That Chose the Bluff
How Bluff Hall turned height into presence above Demopolis.
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When Alabama Would Grow Olives
French exiles, federal hope, and an Alabama experiment that turned to cotton.
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Where Two Rivers Made Demopolis
How the Tombigbee helped shape Demopolis at a dramatic river meeting.
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From Italian Battlefield to Alabama Map
How a Napoleonic victory traveled from Piedmont to rural Alabama.
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How Marengo County Got a Napoleonic Name
A frontier county takes its name from a battlefield in Italy.
Gaineswood
How One Man Made Gaineswood
A mansion shaped by ambition, time, and plantation wealth.
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