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Lowndes County
Alabama
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Established by act approved January 20,1830.
Territory taken from Montgomery, Dallas and Butler
counties. Named for William Lowndes, the South
Carolina statesman. Lies near the centre of the State.
Area, 720 square miles; all prairie (rotten limestone
and rolling or hill prairie); woodland, all, except a
few square miles of open prairie. In the prairie
region a large area of the uplands are brown sandy
soils. Principal soil varieties are the sandy loams of
the table lands, the dark loams of the bottoms, and
the calcareous soils of the prairies and lime hills.
Soils very productive. Bottom lands particularly
adapted to corn, of which crop forty bushels to the
acre are often made. Principal crops, cotton, corn,
oats, potatoes, millet and sugar cane. Lowndes is
situated in what is known as the "black belt" of
Alabama, and is one of the richest agricultural
counties of the State. Population, white, 4,466;
colored, 27,084; total, 31,550. County seat,
Hayneville; population, 355. Other towns, Lowndesboro,
Benton, Fort Deposit and Mount Willing. Acres in
county, 442,514. Assessed value of
property in 1891, real,$2,155,- 959.00; personal,
$1,739,189.00; total, $3,895,148.00. Newspapers,
Examiner, weekly, and True Citizen, weekly,
Hayneville. Railroads, miles of main track, Western of
Alabama (Selma division), 22.42; Louisville &
Nashville (Mobile & Montgomery division), 21.
Telegraph, miles of poles, 64.42. The Alabama
river—navigable throughout the year, forms the entire
northern boundary of the county. County watered by
several large creeks. Climate and health good, and
school and church facilities superior. Crops in 1889
(census of 1890)—cotton, acres, 113,341; bales,
40,430; value, $1,847,206.00; corn, acres, 51,080;
bushels, 1,063,793; oats, acres, .4,591; bushels,
60,608. Lands, $3.00 to $20.00 an acre. There are no
unappropriated government lands in this
county.
Source: Handbook
of Alabama, by Saffold Berney, 1892, Transcribed by C.
Anthony
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