History of Coffee County Alabama United States of America

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Population: White, 6,831; colored, 1,288. Area: 700 square miles. Woodland, 340 square miles. Rolling or undulating pine lands, 360 square miles.

Acres-In cotton (approximately), 16,500; in corn, 18,668; in oats, 2,370; in rye, 31; in wheat, 22; in rice, 21; in sugar-cane, 254; in sweet potatoes, 474.

Approximate number of bales of cotton, 4,788.

County Seat-Elba; population, 222; located on the Pea River, 30 miles south of Troy, and 75 miles southeast of Montgomery.

Newspaper published at County Seat-Coffee County News.

Postoffices in the County-Alberton, Clintonville, Cross Trails, Damasens, Elba, Elizabeth, Enterprise, Haw Ridge, Rodney, Victoria.

Coffee County was established by an Act of the Legislature, dated December 29, 1841, and was formed from territory taken from Dale County. A portion of its original territory was set apart in 1868, to form Geneva County. The county was named in honor of General Coffee, one of the pioneers of Lauderdale County.

This county is particularly noted for its forests, which consist of the greater part of pine, but in localities large quantities of ash, hickory, oak beach and poplar are found. Timber form the chief industry of the county, though stock raising is receiving much attention now, and the wool product of the country is increasing largely every year.

The advancement of the county is considerably retarded by the want of transportation facilities, which, if it had, would cause it to become one of the pleasantest and most substantial portions of the State.

The health of the county is phenomenal, and this, more than any other cause, goes to make it a most desirable place as a home.

The county is watered by Pea River, Double Branch, White Water, and Bluff Creeks and their tributaries.

Educational and religious institutions flourish in all portions of the county.

Elba, on Pea River, is the county seat. Victoria, Clintonville and Enterprise are some of the other towns of the county.

From: Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical; Birmingham, Ala.: 1888

History of Coffee County Alabama

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