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First edition limited to 1500 unnumbered copies INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 288 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket present. Blue cloth rubbed; light sunning to spine with spine's gilt stamping a bit dulled but still easily legible; front board's gilt stamping remains bright. Some toning/foxing to text block's top edge. Light toning to endpapers. Author's four-line ink inscription "To: Judge Chas. R. Wiggins | From his friend | Carl Elliott | 9/59" on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy. With Preface, two b/w portrait photos, tables, and Index. Text comprised of 36 essays - several being a page or less but most being five to ten pages in length - regarding various historical facets of northwest Alabama encompassing the counties of Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston. The more interesting essays are: SKETCHES OF EARLY CULLMAN COUNTY, ALABAMA by Marc Miller; JOHN WILLIAMS ROGERS by Harry V. Barnard; AN ALABAMA HORSE-AND-BUGGY MINISTER-DOCTOR by Margaret D. Sizemore; EARLY DAYS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY by William H. Key, Jr.; RURAL MAIL CARRIERS SEES THE SEASONS by Joe Acee; HEZEKIAH MASSEY (1822-1910) by Charley Ross West; A SUPPLEMENT TO THE HISTORY OF THE HEZEKIAH MASSEY FAMILY by Charley Ross West; OLD JASPER ACADEMY, 1859-1892 by Sheriff Lacy; THE HAMILTON AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, A HISTORY: 1895-1933 by E.W. Branyon; THE SIPSEY FORK OF THE BLACK WARRIOR RIVER, ALABAMA by Warren W. Scott; WHAT OUR GARMENT FACTORY MEANS TO DETROIT, ALABAMA by Mrs. Opal Thompson; GLIMPSES OF EARLY FAYETTE COUNTY, ALABAMA by James A. Windle and Margaret D. Sizemore; MORE ABOUT ALLEN T. OWEN (1851-1917) by Rosa Odiel Gatewood; SOME RECOLLECTIONS by William Jesse Bonds; MY FOUR-SCORE YEARS AND MORE IN MARION AND LAMAR COUNTIES by Florence Sizemore; THE WAKEFIELD FAMILY OF WALKER COUNTY, ALABAMA by Wayne E. Wakefield; TOMBIGBEE RIVER TRIBUTARIES, MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA by Col. R.W. Love; 1830 U.S. CENSUS OF WALKER COUNTY, ALABAMA compiled by Bruce Myers; THE LUCAS-DODSON FAMILIES by Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.; SOME FRANKLIN COUNTY, ALABAMA GRAVESTONE RECORDS BY R.L. JAMES; THE FUTURE OF COAL IN WALKER COUNTY, AND THE GASIFICATION EXPERIMENT by Milton H. Fies; DRAINAGE AREAS OF CERTAIN CREEKS IN ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI by Colonel Harold E. Bisbort; AS I REMEMBER by Maggie Byram; SCHOOL DAZE IN 1889 IN BLOUNT COUNTY by Margaret D. Sizemore; THE TENNESSEE-TOMBIGBEE WATERWAY by W.H. Drinkard; MORE U.S. POST OFFICES OF YESTERYEAR BY CARL ELLIOTT; UNION COMMUNITY, FRANKLIN COUNTY, ALABAMA by P.O. Davis; etc. Please note that this is Volume II only of the "Annals of Northwest Alabama" series which was compiled by Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) who served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL Shelf #5}.
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