Cullman County AlArchives History .....Cullman County 1888
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VIII.
CULLMAN COUNTY.

    Population: White, 6,312; colored, 143. Area, 500 square miles. Woodland, all.

    Acres—In cotton (approximately), 1,469; in corn, 10,343; in oats, 1,179; in
wheat, 2,569; in rye, 480; in sugar-cane, 66; in tobacco, 41; in sweet potatoes,
215.

    Approximate number of bales of cotton in round numbers, 400.

    County Seat—Cullman; population, 1,600; located on South & North Alabama
Railroad.

    Newspapers published at County Seat—Alabama Tribune and Trumpet.

    Postoffices in the County—Baileyton, Bosenberg, Bremen, Crane Hill, Crooked
Creek, Cullman, Dreher, Etha, Jones Chapel, Logan, Marriott, May Apple, Nesmith,
Ruby, Simcoe, Trimble.

    This is one of the last counties formed in the State, and was organized in
1877, and has an interesting history, which begins in 1873, when John G. Cullman
became the agent for the sale of the vast tracts of land belonging to the South
& North Alabama and Louisville & Nashville Railroads.  [See History of Cullman,
this volume.]


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.
MINERAL BELT.


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