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New County Seat of Coffee County
New County Seat of Coffee County.-by a vote of the people in Coffee, The Court House and Jail of that county, have been removed from Wellborn to Elba. The citizens of the town have undertaken the erection of the county buildings, free of charge on the county.
Source: Alabama Journal, February 17, 1853; Submitted by Jo Ann Scott
New Brockton Is Young, But Live and Growing Town.
New Brockton, one of the younger cities of Coffee county, now boasts of a population of more than 100. It has two modern banking Institutions, the Bank of New Brockton and the First National Bank of New Brockton organized in October, 1907, with a capitalization of $25,000, has paid over $7,500 in dividends to its stockholders, besides laying by a handsome surplus. The First National Bank, while only organized since November 13, 1913, has a most remarkable showing. Organized with a capitalization of $45,000, this young bank, under efficient management, has already rolled up a $9,000 surplus.
Both of these banks have at their head men who have followed the plow, and are students of agricultural conditions, and stand ready to assist the farmers of their community with both money and experience.
W. D. Dawkins, Mayor of New Brockton, has spent a number of years in this city, and has proven by his long years of allegiance and service his belief in the future of New Brockton and Coffee county.
Mr. Dawkins is ably assisted in the administration of the city's affairs by the following councilmen; J. G. Crumpler, W. A. Baggett, R. C. Adams, and D. J. Stevens.
Mr. Dawkins, while talking to the writer, stated that over $30,000 worth of hogs had been shipped from New Brockton this year, and that the people of New Brockton and community were just beginning to realize the vast possibilities of the cattle and hog industry, and he prophesies that New Brockton is on the threshold of its greatest prosperity in its history.
New Brockton has a fully equipped and up-to-date gin and warehouse company, which is amply able to take care of the farmers' cotton crops, which, by the way, will only be grown as a surplus crop.
The introduction of diversification and the growing of food crops and conversion into cash by the feeding of hogs and cattle for the steadily increasing demand of the foreign markets have largely done away with the old system of advancing, and the banks state that they have on hand more ready cash to loan than has ever been known in the history of this section.
The town of New Brockton has more than a dozen well stocked general merchandise stores, which carry a line of goods that will satisfy the most fastidious.
Land can be bought around New Brockton at a price varying from $10 for cut-over land up to $100 an acre for the most highly improved and stumped lands. It has been demonstrated that this land is most wonderfully adapted for the growing of forage crops and truck gardens and it is undoubtedly as sound and as profitable investment as can be found in the whole South.
Mr. W. D. Dawkins, the Mayor, will be glad to furnish information in detail regarding specific tracts of land, and upon what terms it can be secured.
New Brockton extends to all people wishing a location among comfortable homes and profitable investments of hearty welcome. Source: Montgomery Advertiser, April 27, 1916, Transcribed by C. Anthony
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