While it is true that Congress designated Christmas Day a federal holiday in 1870, no historical records exist to corroborate this claim about Alabama 34 years earlier — or, 17 years after it became a state.
But Barnett did not offer any evidence to substantiate the alleged timeline nor explain how he developed it."His book provides no footnotes or other documentation for the sources of his information on how and when the holiday was celebrated in the various states," wrote Norwood Kerr, a research archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, in the 2014 memo copied below.
The claim that Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a holiday, in 1836, dates back to at least 1954, in James H. Barnett’s. His book provides no footnotes or other documentation for the sources of his information on how and when the holiday was celebrated in the various states. The only connection with that year that the department’s investigations have found is that the 1867 Code of Alabama included the 1848 bank-holiday provision as section 1836.
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