Clarke County AlArchives History .....Clarke County 1888
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CLARKE COUNTY.

  Population: White, 8,000: colored, 9,088. Area, 1,160 square miles. Woodland,
all. Lime-hills, 560 square miles. Oak, hickory, and long-leaf pine uplands. 340
square miles: rolling and open pine woods. 260 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 33,400; in corn, 28,220; in oats, 5,065; in
tobacco, 19; in sugar-cane, 200; in rice, 22: in sweet potatoes, 1,256.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton, 12,000.

  County Seat, Grove Hill;  population, 300: 84 miles northeast of Mobile.

  Newspaper  published at County Seat—Clarke County Democrat (Democratic.)

  Postoffices in the County—Airmount, Baggett, Barlow Bend, Bashi, Bedsole,
Campbell, Carney's Bluff, Cherry, Chocktaw Corner, Coffeeville, Conde,
Cunningham, Dead Level, Gainestown, Glover, Gosport, Grove Hill, Jackson,
Morvin, Nettleborough, Pickens Landing, Rual, Salitpa, Singleton, Suggsville,
Tallahatta Springs, Vashti, Walker Springs. Winn, Wood's Bluff.

  This county was created in 1812. It is historically associated with many of
the bloody scenes enacted during the prevailing war of that time.

  Clarke abounds in forests of excellent timber, comprising oak, poplar,
hickory, beech, bay, cypress, maple, elm, cedar and pine. Vast pine forests
prevail in several portions of Clarke, and the trees are some times rafted to
Mobile, where they find a ready market.

  Some attention is now being bestowed upon the improvement of stock. In the
western part of the county are quite a number of salt springs and wells, to
which the people of that and adjoining counties were forced to resort and
manufacture salt during the late war, while the ports of the south were blockaded.

  There are 97,600 acres of Government land in Clarke, which are subject to entry.

  The people of Clarke are eager to have their lands peopled by a thrifty
energetic population.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
TIMBER BELT.


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