Established by act of December 6, 1366. Territory taken from
Calhoun, Randolph and Talladega counties. Named for Patrick R. Cleburne,
the Confederate general (killed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee,
November 20, 1864). Lies in northeastern Alabama and adjoins the State
of Georgia. Area, 545 square miles; woodland, all; metamorphic, 405
square miles: Coosa valley, 140 square miles. Surface mountainous and
rugged, with intervening fertile valleys. Population, white. 12,396;
colored, 822 : total, 13,218. County seat, Edwardsville; population,
446. Acres in county, improved, 50,009; unimproved, 244,613; total,
292,622. Assessed value of property in 1891, real, $703,861.00;
personal, $709,241.00; total,$1,413,102.00. County debt, none. Total
rate of tax, for all purposes, on property, — mills.
Railroads, miles of main track, East & West Railroad of Alabama,
8.60; Georgia Pacific, 20.45. Telegraph, miles of poles, 29.05.
Newspapers, Cleburne Plowboy, Standard-News, Edwardsville;
Cleburne New Era, Heflin. Bank, 1, Edwardsville. The Tallapoosa
river flows through this county, but it is not navigable. Soil, red in
the valleys and of a light or grayish color along the ridges. Chief
agricultural products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, sweet potatoes and
tobacco. Soil well adapted to the production of apples and peaches.
Clovers aud grasses excellent for stock raising. County well timbered
and watered. Mineral resources, gold, silver, copper, iron, mica, slate,
graphite, pyrites, zinc and kaolin. The region about Arbacoochee was
well known thirty years ago for its gold mining operations. Agricultural
products in 1889 (census of 1890) — cotton, acres, 14,506;
bales, 5.389; value, $225,441.00; com, acres, 22,47 bushels,359,472;
oats, acres, 6,099; bushels, 49,970. The health and
climate of this county are excellent, and its school and church
facilities are good. Land, $2.00 to 810.00 an acre. Unappropriated
government land in the county, 21,740 acres.
Source: Handbook of
Alabama, by Saffold Berney, 1892, Transcribed by C.
Anthony
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