Washington County AlArchives History .....Washington County 1888
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XV.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.

  Population: White, 3,000: colored, 1,500. Area, 1,050 sqnare miles. Woodland,
all. Undulating pine-lands, 800 square miles; lime hills and shell-prairie
lands, 150 square miles; pine hills, 100 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton (approximately), 3,300; in corn, 4,259; in oats, 464; in rice,
67; in sugar-cane, 90; in sweet potatoes, 448.

  Approximate number of bales of cotton, 1,400.

  County Seat—St. Stephens; population, 200.

  Postoffices in the County—Atchison, Bigbee, Escatawpa, Gondola, Healing
Springs, Koeton, Lumberton, McIntosh Bluff, Millry, St. Stephens, Sims Chapel,
Washington.

  Washington is the oldest county in the State, having been created by Governor
Sargent in 1800. It was named for the first President of the United States.
Considerable historic interests attaches to the county. It has the honor of
having within its limits the first capital of Alabama—St. Stephens. It was in
this county that Aaron Burr was arrested, in 1807. It is alike noted for the
quiet tone of its people, its forests of timber, its health, and its healing
springs.

  Pine, oak, hickory, beech, ash, cedar, cypress, and dogwood are the trees
which stock the forests of the county. Many of these are of matchless size, and
are of great marketable value. Great quantities of turpentine are gathered from
the pine forests.

  St. Stephens and Escatawpa are the places of interest. A good common-school
system exists in the county.

  Lands may be had for $1, or as high as $8 per acre. The inhabitants would be
glad to welcome, as accessions to their population, earnest and energetic citizens.

  The county of Washington embraces 130,120 acres of Government land awaiting
the occupation of settlers.


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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