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MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA
History & Genealogy

 

 

Source:
The History of
Madison County, Alabama
with an autobiographical sketch
by
Thomas Jones Taylor
The Manuscript was written in Huntsville
from 1880 to 1886

CONTENTS:

Madison County 1
Indian Cessions in Madison County 4
Settlement 5
Survey and Sale of Lands 8
Settlement East of Flint River 12
Map of Madison County in 1809 (Facing pg. 14 14
Map of Chickasaw Boundry 15
New Madison 17
Map of New Madison and old Madison (Facing pg. 17) 17
Madison County 18
Huntsville 23
Huntsville as laid out in 1810 24
Map of City from Holmes to Lincoln Street 29
Plat of Original Purchase 30
Present Corporation Limits 31
Hazel Green 35
Merridianville 36
Brownsboro and Maysville 40
Trianna 41
____iopa 45
Whitesburgh 46
Madison 48
Gurleysville 48
Madison County (Topography) 49
Climate 54
Productions 56
The Early Settlers 61
Clearing the Lands 66
Cultivation of soil and History of Farming 71
House Building 76
Pioneer Life Seventy years ago 79
Sports and Past Times 83
History of Madison County (Chapter 1) 89
Cotton freighting (Chapter 2) 91
Politics (Chapter 3) 95
Election Districts (Chapter 4) 98
From 1823 to 1830 102
History of Madison County (1840 to 1865) 103
A Stroll in Arcadia 111
Madison County (1840 to 1850) 115
Autobiographic 116
Humes on Turnpike Bill 128
Richardson against Humes 139
Turnpike notes (Nov. 18, 1865) 130
To New Orleans 131
Delegates from Madison County 1886 138

 


 

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