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Title
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Northern Alabama - Historical and Biographical
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Genealogy Trails
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Publication Place
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N/A
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Publication Date
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1888
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Transcript
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Population: White, 6,000; colored, 3,000. Area, 610 square miles. Woodland. All. hilly with long-leaf pine, 310 square miles. Cahaba coal fields. Gravelly hills, Cotton, corn, oats, wheat, rye, tobacco, sugar-cane, sweet potatoes. County Seat - Centerville. Post offices in - Abercrombie, Affonee, Ashby, Bibbville, Blocton, Brierfield, Centerville, Furnace, Green Pond, Harrisburgh, New Marrs, Pondville, Randolph, River Bend, Scottsville, Six Mile, Slick, Tionus, Woodstock. Mineral and timber wealth discovered; . Little corn, and they could easily raise it all. Soil produces with ease and in abundance. Oats, rye, potatoes, peas, rice, sugar-cane, almost everything but wheat. The forests and fields good pasturage. afford excellent pasturage for cattle and hogs.The farmers are turning attention to stock-raising. Entire eastern portion of county is full of iron of the finest quality. Beds of limestone, and coal is near by. Iron can be made at a small cost. Many varieties of marble and cam be easily utilized. The finest fire-clay exists in many places, and is being worked at two points. Fine brick are made. Yellow ochre is found and some gold-bearing quality. There are also manganese, asbestos, saltpetre, and some other inferior minerals.Great forests of pine timber offer a rich harvest to mill men. Shaded by hickory, oak, gum, maple, beech, poplar, walnut, chestnut, elm, persimmon, cottonwood, and cedar; Anywhere on the banks of the beautiful streams may be found fine water-powers, where small manufactories could be run. Most important streams are Cahaba and Little Cahaba Rivers, and Haysoy, Shultz, Shades, Ockmulgee, Sandy, Six Mile, and Mahean Creeks. All have mills and gins.