History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . y were com-pelled to go into are now 300 buildings—80 framed houses, 20 brick stores and houses two ^x^^nunKsu roi/Hty-court nowir and three stories high, 40 brick stores under contract, two plainingmills, one cotton factory, two grist mills, one foundry and machineshop, two hotels, five restaurants, teu boarding houses, three black-smith and wagon shops, one Episcopal church and arrangementsmaking for building four more of other denominations. On tkc28th of April, 1872, Colonel Powell wrote as follows to
History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . y were com-pelled to go into are now 300 buildings—80 framed houses, 20 brick stores and houses two ^x^^nunKsu roi/Hty-court nowir and three stories high, 40 brick stores under contract, two plainingmills, one cotton factory, two grist mills, one foundry and machineshop, two hotels, five restaurants, teu boarding houses, three black-smith and wagon shops, one Episcopal church and arrangementsmaking for building four more of other denominations. On tkc28th of April, 1872, Colonel Powell wrote as follows to John ;aldwell, Indianapolis, Ind.: Yours of the ITtli received asking meto give you my views on this section of Alabama in reference to itsmineral advantages. I shall be very glad to see you located in thisfavorable locality. Jones valley is favored because of its wonderfuldevelopment of coal, iron, slate, marble and lead. According to thetestimony of every iron master from princi])al works of Europe andAmerica, (we have had their representatives here), iron can be. 26o HISTORY OF ALABAMA maJi here move cheaply than in any other locality, because all ele-ments which make iron are in such close proximity and exhaustless-abundance. A few months after Birmingham was founded, Xol)le and A. L. Tyler erected the Woodstock IronFnrnace in Calhoun county, and this was the heginning oftlie l)eautiful and thriving city of Anniston, which dates itsrapid growth from the first sale of lots to the puljlic aboutten years later. During the term of (lovernor , several iron furnaces were Iniilt and several coalmines opened in this State. Both iron and coal broughtgood prices, and the attention of the whole industrial worldwas attracted more than ever before to the great and valuablemineral resources of Alabama. In February. 1872, an actwas passed by the legislature accepting the national grant ofland for an agriaultural and mechanical college and thecollege inc
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