These Highly Readable Books, Written by Local Authors, are Indispensible for Anyone With an Interest in the History of our Town and Region.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of Mike Mahan’s 324 page memoir about growing up in Montevallo.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of the 2011 publication, “Montevallo” – 128 pages by Carey Heatherly and Clark Hultquist.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of the 2000 Ex Libris publication: “Time Has Made a Change in Me” – a collection of short memoirs about growing up in Montevallo. 302 pages – Edited by Montevallo native and noted historian, Robert David Ward.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of University of Montevallo history professor, James Day’s exhaustive 209 page history of Central Alabama’s 19th & 20th century Coal industry.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of former University of Montevallo history professor, David Morgan's meditations on his adopted state and his observations about living in Montevallo and his career on the University faculty.
Click on the book cover to order a copy of Montevallo native, John S. Sledge’s recent book about the Civil War in Alabama. It includes a detailed account of Wilson's Raiders’ foray through Montevallo as they fought their way to destroy the armories at Selma.
Lamar and Me, a small volume of remembrances about growing up in Montevallo was published by native son Robert David Ward in 1983. It went out of print shortly after its initial publication. The Montevallo Historical Society is pleased to bring this entertaining collection back to life as a digital pdf file that can be read online or downloaded for free.
The Lives and Times of Kingswood in Alabama 1817-1890, by Golda W. Johnson was published by the University of Montevallo in 1976 following the conclusion of the restoration of the 150 year old "King House" on campus. The book gives an account of the life and times of Montevallo settler, planter, and entrepreneur, Edmund King, who completed the Federal Style house for his family's home in 1823. The book is out of print but you can click on the cover image to open a pdf file of the complete book. For reader convenience, the file was downloaded from the online digital archives of the UM Carmichael Library.
Dr. Lucille Griffith's excellent book on the University of Montevallo's historic campus buildings, White Columns and Red Brick (published in 1987), is part of the Milner Archives maintained online by the University's Carmichael Library. You can see the book in its entirety in digital format by clicking on the photograph of its cover at right.
