timber belt | Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com Explore Alabama - Alabama's Unofficial Travel Guide & Travelogue Series Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:57:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-15249-32x32.gif timber belt | Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com 32 32 CRENSHAW COUNTY ALABAMA /alabama-counties/crenshaw-county-alabama/crenshaw-county-alabama/32004 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:17:00 +0000 /?p=32004 Crenshaw County was created by an act of the Alabama General Assembly on 1866 Nov. 24. It was formed from parts of Butler, Coffee, Covington, Pike and Lowndes counties. It is located in the south-central section of the state, in the coastal plain area. Crenshaw County encompasses 611 square miles.

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]]> Alabama Mines and Mining /gold-prospecting-in-alabama/alabama-mines-and-mining/29374 Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:36:45 +0000 /?p=29374 Alabama mining region, rich and prolific as it is, does not monopolize all the mineral wealth of Alabama. In several of the counties of the Tennessee valley, in portions of the “cotton belt,” and also in the far south, called the “timber belt,” minerals have been found in more or less profusion.

Gold was first discovered in Alabama about the year 1830, and states that, shortly afterward, the placers and gravel washes became the seats of an active industry in the counties of Cleburne, Talladega, Randolph, Tallaposa, Coosa, Chilton, and perhaps, also of Clay. No record of these operations has been preserved; all that is now known is that large numbers of men were engaged in the work and that in some places, at least, it was found profitable.

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