Geneva County AlArchives History .....Geneva County 1888
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X.
GENEVA COUNTY.

  Population: White, 4,000; colored, 500. Area, 590 square miles. Woodland, all.
Undulating pine lands, 560 square miles; red lime lands, 30 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 5,000; in corn 9,476; in oats. 1,705; in
sugar-cane, 118: in rice, 154; in sweet potatoes, 350.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton, 1,300.

  County Seat—Geneva: population, 700.
 
  Newspaper published at County Seat—Record, Democratic.

  Postoffices in the County—Big Creek, Coffee Springs, Dundee, Elton, Ennola,
Garrard, Geneva, High Falls, Martha, Noblin, Pea, Taylor, Vaughanville, Warwick,
Watford.

  The county of Geneva was formed in 1868. It is one of the most progressive
counties in this portion of the State. Capital and enterprise have been won to
it, and its lands are being rapidly occupied. Long remote from important lines
of transportation, it now enjoys facilities which enable its numberless
resources to find their way easily to market. The wide-awake spirit which
prevails among the people of Geneva, may be inferred from the rapid increase of
population within the last four years.

  The trees are largely those of yellow pine, while there are also oaks,
hickory, poplar and beech. The manufacture of the pines into lumber for shipment
is a growing branch of business. Large quantities of logs are floated down the
waters of the principal streams to markets further south. The manufacture of
turpentine is also a pursuit, the proportions of which are constantly
increasing. Schools are moderately good and are annually improving. Churches of
the Baptist and Methodist denominations, principally, exist.

  Lands may be had as low as $1 and $3 per acre. Vast quantities of public or
Government lands are found in Geneva, there being 216,840 acres. Rare
inducements for investments, or for settlements, are found in this young and
growing county. The people are of a progressive spirit, and will cordially
welcome to the county men of limited means, who are seeking cheap and pleasant
homes, as they will the capitalist with ampler resources, who desires to make a
profitable investment.


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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