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VII.
GREENE COUNTY.

  Population: White, 3,765: colored. 18,166. Area, 520 square miles. Woodland
all, except about twenty-five square miles of prairie.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 63,643; in corn, 31,826: in oats, 2,163; in
wheat, 214; in rye, 25; in sugar-cane. 25; in tobacco, 41: in sweet potatoes, 705.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton, 15,800.

  County seat—Eutaw: population 1,100; situated on the Alabama & Great Western
Railroad, thirty-five miles from Tuscaloosa, and sixty miles west of Selma.

  Newspapers published at County Seat—Mirror, Whig and Observer (all Democratic).

  Postoffices in the County—Boligee, Burton's Hill, Clinton, Dobbs, Eutaw,
Forkland, Knoxville, Mantua, Mount Hebron, Pleasant Ridge, Tishabee, Union, West
Greene.

  The county bounded is on the north by the Sipsey River, on the east and
southeast by the Warrior River, and on the west and southwest by the Tombigbee
River; is .situated in the western part of Alabama, and. agriculturally
considered, is one of the best counties in the State. Its county seat, Eutaw, is
situated on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, and three miles west of a
steamboat landing on the Warrior River. Its other towns are Forkland, 300
inhabitants, in the southern part of the county, near the junction of the
Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers; Boligee, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
300 inhabitants; Mount Hebron, West Greene and Pleasant Ridge, in the western
part of the county, near the Tombigbee River, each containing about 150
inhabitants; Knoxville, 200 inhabitants, and Union and Mantua, two small
villages in the northern part of the county. The Alabama Great Southern Railroad
crosses the county from east to west. The lands lying south of this railroad,
with a few exceptions, are what are known as "canebrake lands," and much
resemble the prairies of the North and Northwest. They are very productive, an
average crop being one-half bale of cotton or thirty bushels of corn per acre.
These lands are worth from six to fifteen dollars per acre, according to
locality and fertility. North of the river is a small belt of black or canebrake
lands, but the main body of the lands lying north of this railroad are either
dark red or gray sandy lands. These sandy lands are good for all kinds of
farming, and respond generously to judicious fertilizing. They are worth from
two to twelve dollars per acre, according to locality and quality. The principal
products of the county are com, cotton, peas, potatoes, molasses, and
vegetables. Large bodies of cane are to be found upon the uncleared lands of
this county, which form a splendid winter pasture for stock, and owing to the
splendid climate, fertility of soil and abundance of water, and its adaptability
to the growth of clover, this county would be a splendid locality for stock
raisers. Greene County contains large bodies of virgin timber, consisting of
oak, red and white, ash, poplar, cypress, hickory and pine, and the Sipsey,
Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers would be splendid places for the lumber mills.
Greene County lies seventy miles south of Birmingham, and "truck farming" there
would yield good and immediate profits.

  Among the great men given to the State by this county are to be mentioned the
brilliant advocate, William M. Murphy; the eminent jurist, John Erwin; the
well-known Chancellor Clark. These men are now dead. Among the living are to be
mentioned Thomas Seay, the present Governor of Alabama, who was born in Greene
County, and Thomas W. Coleman, the present efficient Chancellor of the
Southwestern Chancery Division of this State. Educational and religions
facilities of the county are good.


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.
COTTON BELT.


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