Tallapoosa County AlArchives History .....Recollections of Church Hill Community October 24 1985
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Sandra S. Wilson earlwilson1@charter.net April 8, 2004, 2:17 pm

" A Bit of History," by Sandra S. Wilson, included the following recollections 
of Mr. W.R. Adcock, Church Hill community, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, October 
24, 1985:

Church Hill Community--[The following are] names of early families who lived 
in the Church Hill Community 1837-1920: Adcocks (1837), Arant, Baker, Bartee, 
Cantrel, Chester, Fralic, Fielder, Gandy, Hood, Hayes, Jackson, Knight, 
Ledbetter, Lumpkin, McGarr, McClendon, Shaw, Thompson, Waters, Webb, Hamby, 
Newman, Prophit, Pugh, Reynolds, and others I can't recall at this time.

William Newman Adcock was Justice of the Peace at Church Hill for many 
years ... he and his brother, George F. Adcock, operated a sawmill and a 
cotting [sic] gin for a number of years. They ginned their first bale of 
cotton, 31 August 1905.

Most everybody made their living on the farm until after World War I. In the 
early 1920s Mr. Tomie L. Dennis moved his sawmill and planer mill into the 
community and other saw millers also moved in. About this time the 
construction of Martin Dam [started]. The people began [to] work at jobs other 
than farming so the community changed. The farmers moved to smoother land and 
a lot of them worked at public jobs. The land became timberland.

CHURCH HILL GETS A NEW SCHOOL--The school building was completed and school 
opened 10 February 1908. Miss Julia E. McGuire was the teacher at that time. 
The school continued in that building until school buses began sometime in the 
1930s.



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