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Did you know?
That the coolest month, on average, in our area is January? The lowest recorded temperature was -14° F. in 1985.
"Boom Days" in
Fort Payne, Alabama
February 1889-August 1890
The "Boom Days" (continued - page four)
There is one large private school and several district schools, including a colored school in the Douglas addition. Measures are being taken to establish a high grade school, which is to be the nucleus of technical schools and eventually a university.
A system of public schools will be provided for the city, which will be managed on a liberal scale.
Numbers of new and elegant private residences will be open for social festivities in a few months, and the coming winter will inaugurate the home life of the citizens of Fort Payne as never before, and the abodes of culture and refinement will add a new charm to the city.
The temperature of the Wills Valley during the hottest season, on account of the altitude, is always endurable, and the nights are cool. From the fact that scores of Northern-born men stayed the entire year in 1889, most of the time out of doors, with none of the comforts now enjoyed, is a proof that the Southern highlands is a salubrious [safe] place to live in. On the mountain top, immediately opposite the city, preparations are being made to establish a summer resort, where the thermometer is always ten degrees below the temperature of the valley. An incline road will make access easy.
The taxable property in Fort Payne in 1888 was $146,633; in 1889, $1,189,268, and in 1890, $3,000,000. The rate of taxation is fixed by state law for the city and county and is one-half on one percent, for each.
The census figures for 1890 are not yet available, but will not show less than 3,575 people, and if taken in the fall of 1890 it would show nearly 7,000, owing to the influx of operators.
The health of the city since its foundation has been excellent. In spite of the discomforts and exposures incident to the fouding of a new town, deaths have been very few, either among new settlers or in the old village.
There are three church edifices in the city, Methodist, (South) Cumberland Presbyterian, and Baptist. A Congregational society will be formed in the coming fall, (1890), and a Methodist church, (North), and an Episcopal church are organized and worship in halls. Early in 1889 a Young Men's Christian Association was organized, and handsome rooms, with magazines and papers, are open every evening, and religious meetings are held weekly.
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