Coffee County AlArchives History .....Coffee County 1888
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IV.
COFFEE  COUNTY.

  Population: White, 6,831; colored, 1,288. Area.
700 square miles. Woodland, 340 square miles.
Rolling or undulating pine lands, 360 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 16,500; in corn, 18,668; in oats, 2,370; in
rye, 31; in wheat, 22; in rice, 21; in sugar-cane, 254; in sweet potatoes, 474.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton, 4,788.

  County Seat—Elba; population, 222; located on the Pea River, 30 miles south  
of Troy, and 75 miles southeast of Montgomery.

  Newspaper published at County Seat—Coffee County News.

  Postoffices in the County—Alberton, Clintonville, Cross Trails, Damasens,
Elba, Elizabeth, Enterprise, Haw Ridge, Rodney, Victoria.

  Coffee County was established by an Act of the Legislature, dated December 29,
1841, and was formed from territory taken from Dale County. A portion of its
original territory was set apart in 1868, to form Geneva County. The county was
named in honor of General Coffee, one of the pioneers of Lauderdale County.

  This county is particularly noted for its forests, which consist of the
greater part of pine, but in localities large quantities of ash, hickory, oak
beach and poplar are found. Timber form the chief industry of the county, though
stock raising is receiving much attention now, and the wool product of the
country is increasing largely every year.

  The advancement of the county is considerably retarded by the want of
transportation facilities, which, if it had, would cause it to become one of the
pleasantest and most substantial portions of the State.

  The health of the county is phenomenal, and this, more than any other cause,
goes to make it a most desirable place as a home.

  The county is watered by Pea River, Double Branch, White Water, and Bluff
Creeks and their tributaries.

  Educational and religious institutions flourish in all portions of the county.

  Elba, on Pea River, is the county seat. Victoria, Clintonville and Enterprise
are some of the other towns of the county.


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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