The family story starts, like so many others in our country, in Europe. From Northern Ireland, Scotland, Northern England, Germany, and a few others thrown in to add some spice to the mixture, they packed up their belongings and crossed the ocean. They came to Virgina, Pennsylvania, and other colonies along the Atlantic coast. Like many others they migrated south and east. Rolling through the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and then to eastern Alabama. That's where I pick up the story, in a small Alabama county separated from Georgia by the Chattahoochee River. Chambers County, according to what I've read, was a thriving area until it was invaded and devastated during the War for Southern Independence. It became a cotton mill county like many others did during and after reconstruction. The mills helped provide desperately needed jobs to the area. . Still, the area remained economically depressed, and it still is today.  Twenty percent of the population is below the national poverty level.  It was however, for a brief period before and after WW2, a much more vibrant place than it is now. It is around that time that many of these pictures were made. There is a website dedicated to one of the small towns, Riverview. The URL is RVAL.org. Some of my deceased family are pictured there. The site is run by a distant cousin of mine.