Did you know?
That the chief crops grown in the state of Alabama are cotton, greenhouse and nursery plants a flowers, peanuts, pecans, sweet potatoes, irish potatoes, and other vegetables? That 2.5 billion board feet of pine and hardwoods are harvested each year? That commercial fishing brings in close to $40 million annually?
"Boom Days" in
Fort Payne, Alabama
February 1889-August 1890
The "Boom Days" (continued - final page)
Newpapers through the years...
The Fort Payne Herald was sold on November 9, 1891 to The Fort Payne Journal, predecessor of the
Times-Journal of today.
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