Clay County AlArchives News.....Land for Sale in Fish Head Valley December 13, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007674 February 25, 2023, 2:11 am The Atlanta Constitution December 13, 1885 Valley Farms We have splendid valley farms in Fish Head Valley Clay County Ala, being in one body. Oxford and Heflin on the Georgia Pacific railroad are the nearest railroad. on the town. Chulafinnee, Cleyburn County Ala is five miles from the settlement and Oaklone post office (daily mail) within a quarter mile, churches and schools within a half mile good society, Bethel Institute a splendid academy only one-half mile. Nine hundred acres divided into five farms good dwellings and outbuildings. This property all lies in a rich valley fine grain and stock country and in a neighborhood noted for morality industry and enterprise. No healthier locality can be found any amount of splendid streams and fine springs run through the land. One very fine mineral spring. Just such a neighborhood as would suit a colony. The valley is ten miles long and from less than one to one and quarter miles wide. It grows all kinds of grain, grasses, clover, tobacco cotton etc. We know of no section offering rich inducements to a colony of families and all at the low prices of $12 to $15 per acre including all improvements. Reasons for selling satisfactory. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/clay/newspapers/landfors2097gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb