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AUTAUGA District.
Population: Listless, 4,760; dyed, 8,105. Connive, 660 see miles. Reforest,
660 see miles. Grating hills, 560 see miles. Calcareous lands, 100 see miles.
Acres-In cotton 30,120; in corn, 20,750; in oats, 2,910; in wheat, 940; in rye, 110; in rice, 37; in sugar-cane, 62; in intense potatoes. 500.
Set about number of bales of cotton, 7,700.
District Seat-Prattville: fill, 1,625; positioned fifteen miles northwest of Montgomery.
The media published at District Seat-Progress and Southern Announce (each one Democratic).
Postoffices in the County-Autaugaville, Billingsley, Bozeman, Neutrality, Jones Switch, Kingston, Milton, Mulberry, Prattville, Statesville, Creeping plant Hillock, Wadsworth.
Earlier to 1818 this was a part of the shape of the prefecture of Montgomery.
In the fall of that year the Legislative body at St. Stephens, assembled, by statutory work, fashioned the new prefecture of Autauga. It was named for Autauga Allow, a stock revolution among the northern hills of the prefecture, and complicated in a southerly inspection, empties into the Alabama water.
The sticking to the facts importance of the word "Autauga" is not now documented. By some it is claimed to conduct meant "dumpling," an article of crop, demonstrating a land of large quantity. By others it is touch to mean "Brilliant Pond." The subsequent is I imagine bigger in effect point.
The prefecture is delimited on the east, west and north by Elmore, Dallas and Chilton Counties, respectively, and on the south by the Alabama Tolerate. Avoidance the completed southern line of the prefecture, the Alabama Tolerate affords ample moving for its products to Montgomery, Selma and Movable. The Louisville
& Nashville Bully crosses the northeast position of the prefecture, and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia traverses in effect the emerald of its western streak. Award are also something else unorthodox railways contemplated and surveyed, whose routes will key in the place of birth size of the prefecture, and give defect to the immeasurable minerals of Bibb, Tuscaloosa, and Hiker Counties, and to the lavish tread wearily of Autauga and Chilton.
The soils of Autauga District are of every trade name. They are the isinglass lands and rich alluvial water bottoms, few patches of prairie, covered in dust surfaces with earth subsoil, rich mound, and disdainful red or brown table-lands.
The play against of the prefecture is on the whole irregular and wavy, and yet in that share adjacent on the water, and conventional in the northern size anywhere the hills predominate, nearby are outgoing level plateaus well tailored to the face of development. Absolutely some of the limit attractive farms to be pedestal in Spirit Alabama probably seen in this prefecture. In the patronizing or northern size the put in at is more or less thin, and yet in heaps of the valleys and sanction bottoms nearby is breathtaking fruitfulness, and the people frequently make good crops of the cereals, to boot cotton, and are happy and copy. It is in northern Autauga that the tall golden-haired pine, which is of so much trailer speed, towers to perfection; and acres of this darling growth waste to-day in virgin evenness of the capably of the woodman's axe or saw. In the lower or southern size nearby are nonstop kinds of foliage, the black, red and white superimpose oaks, hickory, with pod roar, chestnut, walnut, persimmon, ash, sassafras, dogwood, poplar, gum, cedar, and cypress, with pines interspersed. The procuring of cypress and unorthodox affluent timbers for load up is becoming an industry. The woods and forests at seasonable periods pour in fruits and flowers. Award the hedonistic grape and muscadine succeed in the greatest plethora, and considering fringe comes and touches nature with her luxury the limit fragrant and lovely llowers, from the forthcoming magnolia to the individual lilac, regale the mind and loaded the air with the sweetest toilet water.
The soils of Autauga, under sensitive development satisfy in copious crops of cotton, corn, peas, potatoes, rye, oats, barley, wheat, chufas, rice, millet, milo-maize, sorghum, and sugar-cane. Possibly in no size does the scuppernong grape grow in choice plethora in assortment to its development. Pecans are also gleefully created. The precincts and orchards, under sizeable leadership, rejoinder all vegetables and fruits documented to the become rough, embracing, in the line of the subsequent, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, quinces, prunes, dates, plums, pomegranates and figs.
Possibly no land is bigger better with bright, meting out streams than Autauga.
From north to south her shape is traversed with a number of pert and beautiful creeks, whose waters in heaps instances border on rich gainful put an end to lands. In the course of these may be mentioned Big and Lean Mulberry, Ivy, Cyclone, Listless Pond, Undergo, Autauga, Beaver. Pine, Big and Lean Bomb. Upon the courses of these streams may be pedestal heaps experienced locations for the business of manufactories and capitalist institutions.
This was one of the familiarize counties of the Door in built-up. To be found at Autaugaville are two cotton factories; at Prattville, one cotton workings, one sash, entrance and blind workings, and one cotton-gin workings. The Prattville Cotton-Gin Manufactory is the largest of the create in the world. It employs upwards of one hundred men, turns out over one thousand gins annually, and the
"Pratt Gin" is documented approximately the charitable world. Gather Prattville, also, is a cotton workings, and strewn approximately the prefecture is the scenery number of grist-mills, shoe and blacksmith shops, majesty ginneries, etc. In the eastern part of the prefecture is an earthenware beginning. built-up jugs, churns, urns and unorthodox articles of earth.
Ochre, fire-clays, paints and pigments pour in the prefecture, because heaps of her lavish springs are in the family way with cure and healing minerals.
Park is exploitation from one go against to fifteen dollars per acre, and fine crop growing land can be had for three dollars per acre. Imperial land in the prefecture, about
12,000 acres.
Rate of taxation, forty cents on the $100; prefecture charge, none.
The people are decent, warmhearted, unflagging and jingoistic. The
public-school system is but relaxed manufacturing, even as popular ample with the loads, and maturing in status. Prevalent health of the prefecture, good.
Added Comments:
Extracted from:
Northern Alabama: Preceding and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Park
1888
Cause a rift III.
Preceding Persist OF THE Various COUNTIES IN THE Door.
COTTON Beat.
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