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XIII.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.

    Population: White, 30,000; colored, 15,000. Area, 960 square miles.
Woodland, all. Coal measures, 760 square miles; Cahaba fields, 130 square miles;
Valley lands, 70 square miles.

    Acres—In cotton (approximately), 15,000; in corn, 30,900; in oats, 4,500; in
wheat, 105,089; in rye, 83; in tobacco, 55; in sweet potatoes, 504. Approximate
number of bales of cotton, 6,000.

    County Seat—Birmingham: population. 30,000; at the junction of the
Louisville & Nashville and Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Railroads.

    Newspapers published at County Seat—Age (Democratic), Evening Chronicle,
Herald (Independent), Alabama Christian Advocate (Methodist), Alabama Sentinel
(Democratic), Prohibitionist (Prohibitionist), Furnace and Factory, Southern
Industries and Planters' Journal (Agricultural).

    Postoffices in the County—Alice, Argo, Avondale, Ayres, Baylor, Birmingham,
Brake, Brevard, Brock's Gap, Brownsville, Clay, Coalburgh, Dolomite, Earnest,
Ezra, Curley's Creek, Henryellen, Huffman, Jonesborough, Leeds, McCalla, Morris,
Mount Pinson, New Castle, Oxmoor, Partridge, Porter, Pratt Mines, Rasburgh,
Robbin's Cross Roads, Scrap, Short Creek, Sloss, Toad Vine, Trussville, Warrior
Station, Wetona, Wheeling, Woodlawn.

    Jefferson County was established in December, 1819. The territory was taken
from Blount, and retains about its original boundaries. It is in the centre of
the State, south of Blount and Walker, west of Shelby and Saint Clair, north of
Shelby, and east of Tuscaloosa and Walker. The county was named for Hon. Thomas
Jefferson, of Virginia. [See History of Birmingham, 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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