Monroe County AlArchives History .....Monroe County 1888
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XII.
MONROE COUNTY.

  Population: White, ?,800; colored, 9,250. Area, 1,030 square miles. Woodland,
all. Undulating pine lands, 380 square miles. Pine uplands, oak and hickory and
lime hills, 650 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 33,500; in corn, 25,135: in oats, 4,997; in
rice, 78; in sugarcane, 329; in tobacco, 11; in sweet potatoes, 920.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton. 12,000.

  County Seat—Monroeville; population, 300.

  Newspaper published at the County Seat—Monroe Journal (Democratic).

  Postoffices in the County—Activity, Axile, Bell's Landing, Buena Vista, Burnt
Corn, Bursonville, Carlisle, Chestnut, Claiborne, Dennard, Finchburgh, Fork,
Glendale, Hollinger, Kempville, Monroeville, Mount Pleasant, Nero, Newton
Academy, Perdue Hill, Riley, River Ridge, Simpkinsville, Tinela, Turnbull, Watson.

  Monroe County was created in 1815, and named in honor of President Monroe, of
Virginia. It was one of the first counties of the State settled by the whites,
and its people have been uniformly thrifty while engaged chiefly in planting.
Much of the productive land belonging to the timber belt is found in this county.

  The points of interest are Monroeville, the county seat, with a population of
400, Perdue Hill, Buena Vista, Burnt Corn, and Pineville. The school and church
advantages of the county are good.

  Transportation is afforded by the Alabama River, and by the Selma & Pensacola
Railroad, in Wilcox, or the Louisville & Nashville, as it passes through the
adjoining county of Conecuh.

  Lands maybe had for figures running from $1.25 to $10 per acre. About 77,000
acres of public lands exist in the county. Anxious to have the prosperity of the
county enhanced, and its unoccupied lands taken, the people would hail with
delight the influx of an industrious population.


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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