Subtitle: With Sketches of Some of Her Most Distinguished Citizens and Glances at Her Rich and Varied Resources General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: Elm St. Print. Co. Subjects: Butler County (Ala.) Butler County, Ala Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: History of Butler County, Alabama, CHAPTER I. Geographical Position – Geological Formations – Different Varieties of Soils – Virgin Growth – Slopes – Drainage, Etc. This county is situated a little south of the center of the State, and borders Lowndes on the north, Crenshaw on the east, Covington on the south, Conecuh on the southwest, Monroe on the west and Wilcox on the northwest. It originally contained thirty townships, but has been diminished by the formation of Covington and Crenshaw Counties. There are twenty-one and one-halt townships now in the county, making about 765 square miles of territory, the most of which is woodland. The larger portion of the county is underlaid with ‘rocks of the tertiary formation. These rocks are covered with deep strata of drift, varying from twenty-five to one hundred feet in depth, at different localities in the county. In the south- OS) ern part of the county the cretaceous rocks are exposed, and, from the amount of phosphoric acid contained in them, the soil here is by far the most productive in the county. A part of these rocks are also overlaid with drift, giving rise to a sandy soil on the hills and a calcareous variety in the swamps. This productive region of prairie – about forty- five square miles in the northwestern corner of the county – owes its fertility to the amount of phosphoric acid contained in the lime rocks, which are constantly exp…
