History of Baldwin County Alabama United States of America

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Baldwin County History

Population: White, 5,000; colored, 3,000. Area, 1,620 square miles. Woodland, all, except coast marshes. Rolling pine land, 900 square miles; pine fiats, 730 square miles.

Acres-In cotton (approximately), 1,400; in corn, 2,000; in oats, 350; in rice, 121; in sugar-cane, 81; in sweet potatoes, 484.

Approximate number of bales of cotton, 650.

County Seat-Daphne; population, 150.

Newspapers published at County Seat-None.

Postoffices in the County-Battles, Bay Minette, Bromley. Carney, Daphne, Dowty, Gasque, Herndon, Hurricane Bayou, Josephine, Kohler, Lamberta, Latham, Lillian, Magnolia Springs, Montrose, Perdido Station, Point Clear, Ray, Posinton, Stockton, Swift, Tensaw, Theresea.

Baldwin County was created in 1809. It has the honor of being the largest county in the State, embracing within its limits a larger scope of territory than that embraced by the entire State of Rhode Island. Lands in Baldwin are remarkably cheap. Where the timber has been removed they may be purchased at 25 to 50 cents per acre. Others may be had for $1 and $5 per acre.

Many Government lands exist, and are subject to entry, there being 120,240 acres.

Men of limited means, but of industrious habits, could not find a more inviting region for settlement than Baldwin County.

SOURCE: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical; Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land, 1888

History of Baldwin County Alabama

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