Marion County AlArchives History .....Marion County 1888
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XVI.
MARION COUNTY.

    Population: White, 8,841; colored, 523. Area, 810 square miles. Woodland,
all. Coal measures, 660 square miles. Gravelly and pine hills, 150 square miles.

    Acres.—In cotton (approximately), 7,269; in corn, 21,835; in oats, 2,321; in
wheat, 3,925; in tobacco, 44; in sugar-cane, 15; in sweet potatoes, 477.

    Approximate number of bales of cotton, 3,240.

    County Seat—Hamilton; population, 225; on Buttahatchee River, 45 miles from
Aberdeen, Miss.

    Newspaper published at County Seat—Marion Herald.

    Postoffices in the County—Allen's Factory, Allhill, Barnesville, Bexar, Bull
Mountain, Candle, Chalk Bluff, Gold Mine, Hackleburgh, Haleys, Hall's Mills,
Hamilton, Hodges, Ireland Hill, Pearce's Mills, Pikeville, Shottsville, Texas,
Thorn Hill, Ur, Young. 

    Marion County was created in 1818, and was named for Gen. Francis Marion,
the celebrated South Carolina soldier, whose brave deeds and the sore privations
he endured during the Revolutionary War endeared his memory to every American
heart. This county forms a portion of the Warrior coal field, and as such it is
rapidly coming into prominence. [See part I. 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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