Jefferson County AlArchives History .....Jefferson County 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 11, 2011, 3:21 pm 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jefferson/history/other/jefferso371gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb