Butler County, Alabama - Chapter 60: Conclusion, 1885

Chapter 60: Conclusion

Together, kind reader, we have passed over the most important pages of Butler County's history. We have seen her forests in all the beauty of their nativity. We have seen hopeful emigrants leave their native land in search of happy homes, and pitch their tents on Butler's sunlit hills and in her shaded valleys. We saw the little colony increase in numbers, and the settlers undergo all the hardships of the frontier life. We saw her fertile soil stained with the precious blood of her heroic citizens. We have followed the progress of the people until we find them to-day among the first men and women of Alabama. We have read sketches of her towns and villages, and the lives of some of her most distinguished residents. But we must now part, and leave the future history of the Banner County to some other son of Butler, whose tastes for historical details are more highly cultivated than those of the present writer. And while the happy people of Butler County are enjoying a more general prosperity than ever before in the annals of her history, the curtain is drawn.

Dead Fall, Description of, . Defeat of the Confederate Army Democratic Rule in 1874, . Deposit of Iron Ore, Doctors of the County, Donaldson, Betsy, Notice of, . Drainage of the County, Dunham Station, Description of. Earliest History of the County, Fertility of the Soil in 1820, . First Bloodshed in the County,

Companies of the Late War, Court Held in the County, Court House Erected, House in the County Erected, Marriage in the County, Settlements by the Whites, Store in the County, Attack by the Indians, Formation of the County, Forest Home, a Description of, . Forts Erected in the County, . Fort Dale, a Description of, Geographical Position of the County, Geological Formation, Garland, Description of, Georgiana, Description of, . Gins, Tanneries, etc.. Gray Lands in the County, Grist and Saw Mills Needed, . Greenville, First Settlement of, etc Greenville, 1885, a Description of, Henry, Mrs. I. M. P., Sketch of,

General Index

" Leave the County, Iron Ore Deposit in the County, Judges of the County, Judge, Colonel Thomas J., Sketch of, Lampley, Horris D., Notice of, . Lands Cultivated and Uncultivated, Land Office, .....

McCall, Charles R., Notice of, McBride's, Description of, . Mobile and Montgomery Railway, . Mounds of Prehistoric Times, Names of the Settlers of 1818-19, .

Ogly Massacre in 1818, Pine Flat, Description of, Populaion from 1820 to 1880, Porter, Judge Benjamin F., Sketch of, Post-Offices, Postmasters, etc.. Press of Butler County, .

Produce of the County, Properties of the Soil, etc.. Public Schools, .... Railroad Built Through the County Religion in the Savage Land, Religious Influence of To-day, Red Clay Lands, Ridgeville, Description of, Rocky Creek, Description of, Roper Wells, "

Sardis, Description of, Saw Mills, .... Seat of Justice Located at Greenville, Self-Denials of the People During the Late War, Schools, Public and Private, Shackelville, Description of, Starlington,

Stage Lines and Routes, Slopes and Drainage, Stanley, Colonel James B., Sketch o Steiner, Captain Robert E., Notice < State of Affairs in 1865, Timber on Gray Lands, . " Black «<

Red «' Thompson, Warren A., Sketch of, Toluka, Description of, . Truck Farming, Virgin Growth of the County, Voting Precincts, Walker, Lucien J., Notice of, War Between the States, War Record of the County, Water and Water-Power, Wealthy Men of the County, Wilkinson, W. W., Sketch of, Wright, Hon. Nathan, Notice of,