Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-23
LINCOLN COUNTY.

Organization of tho COuntY-Ad-
vantaxcs of Soil and Climate
Products of the Farm and shop
Progress i'm Wealth and Improve
ment-An EnvIable Future for Old
Lincoln.
OF all the counties in Middle Tennessee
there is no one that can surpsss in variety
of wealth and attractions the good old
county of Lincoln. The beauty of the
landscape, the delightful alienation of hill
and vale, and swelling mountains clothed
10 perennial verdure, and pellucid streams
gliding like threads of silver down the
valleys, and vine clad cottages surrounded
with groves of cedar, and oak, and null
berry, and sugar tree, present to the trav-
eler q scene which for beauty, and fresh
ness, and variety is unsurpassed ID the
State, To these charms of nature are
added the superior attractions OF noble
and cultivated men and women, whose
kindness, and hospitality, and gentle
bearing are so marked that we could not
but appropriate to ourselves on leaving
the sentiment of the Psalmist: Ii l for
get thee, let my right hand forget ner
cunning; If do not remember thee, let
my tongue cleaye TO the roof OF my
mouth.
The county was cut off from Bedford
and organized in the year 1910. Oliver
Williams, of Williamson county, qualhed
the justices of peace, and Thos. IL. Ben
ton, then a young man of tweniy-eight,
who had removed with bis mother to
Tennessee from North Carolina, acted as
clerk, pro tenn. At this meeting, Brice
nj. Garner was elected County Court
Clerk. and entered upon the duties of his
Office. Steps were Immediately taken to
build temple of justice, and Micsjah
and William McElroy, father and son,
became the contractors. Prior to loOg,
District Courts were he'd, but during that
yesr q law was enacted by the Legisla-
ture establishing our present system OF
Circuit Courts. Thomas Stewart was
elected Judge of the Circuit Court of the
Circuit including Lincoln, upon the or
ganization of the county, and James
Bright appointed Clerk. The first courts
were held in 8 house two miles west of
the present county seat then owned by 8
man named Greer Ezekiel Norris, who
removed from Montgomery county about
the year 1905, bought two sections Of
land, containing /, 2S0 acres lying at the
Junction of Norris Creek with Elk river
that had been taken up in the year 1887,
under an old North Carolina warrant.
He having heard that Greer had agreed
70 donate a small quantity of land for
The county seat, met the commissioner
and proposed to give one hundred acres
where the present town of Fayetteville
stands, il the commissioner would
build the Courthouse upon it. This they
readily agreed to do and accepted Norris
proposal, but Norris having learned in
1he meanwhile that he had been misin-
formed as to Greer; he afterwards demand
edcompensstion for the hundred acres and
was allowed by the commissioner seven
hundred dollars. This was then devided
into lots and sold and the money appro-
pristed to county buildings. And thus
begun the pleasant town of
FAYETTEVILLE
that stands on 8 considerable elevation
and commands a fine view of the sur
rounding country. The scenery is de-
cidedly picturesque; the spurs of Elk
Ridge and Pea Ridge rise in solemn
grandeur like the parapets of the Titans,
and seen through the gray mist of even
ing twilight painted upon the sky re-
semble the huge pillows of a stormy
ocean. The intervenient valleys, through
which flow Elk river and Norris creek
are lovely beyond description. The luxu-
rant fields of wheat and grass, the stately
residences peeping out from a mass of
dense foliage, the snug cottages embOw
cred in evergreens, and winding roads
skirted with washed fences present
such variety to the eye that it never
weaIies. The town has population of
$500 and is g place Of considerable trade,
Among other things it has z drygOOds
stores, 6 wholesale grocery stores, 3 drug
stores, ] boot, shoe and hat store, 6 retail
liquor establishments, saddler shops,
tailor shops, blacksmith shops, 2 cabinet
shops, ! tin shop, hardware store,
carpenter shops, ] carriage and wagon
shop, I seed and implement store. 2
printing offices, livery stables, 2 silver
smith shops, gallery of art, hotel (and
good one), 4 boarding houses, / bar
ber's shop, church buildings for white
and two for col0red, l lanyard, 4 sh Oe
shops, /, butcher, S doctors and den
lists, | gunsmith, schools, 20 lawyers,
wooden factory that runs SI5 spindles,
looms, works twenty hands aud turns
out 800 yards superior cloth daily. They
here manufacture jeans, cashmere, fan
mel, linsey, satinets, carpets, etc, etc.
w. A. Mckee is the Superintendent
of the
FAYETTEVILLE WOODEN MILLS,
and takes wool in exchange for goOds.
The mills are owned by Chss. Stewart &
Co., who are among the most enterpris-
ing men in the county.
wARREE's COTTON FACTORY,
at Oregon, near Flintville, manufactures
heavy dOmestics in considerable quaint
ties. It runs four hundred spindles, en-
ploys thirty hands, and will soon have
sixteen looms in operation. 1t has been
profitable investment, the goods meet
ing with ready sale as fast as manufac-
tured.
Nothing probably shows more public
spirit among the people of Lincoln than
the attention they have paid to
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
There are five turnpike roads centeriDg IL
Fayetteville, and another is in process Of
construction. One of these roads crosses
the Elk river near town by one of the
most magnificent stone bridges in the
State. This bridge was built in 1861 by
Patrick Flannery and John Markham, of
limestone rock obtained from a quarry
near by. II is composed of six elliptical
arches, four of them sixty feet from cen
ire to centre, one forty-five feet, and one
thirty feet, making the total length Of
the bridge 3l5 feet The piers are in
asher masonry. The roadway is fifteen
feet wide, fl4nked by stone walls three
feet in height and two in width. Some
of the stones in this bridge are vast in
their proportions. We measured one 10
feet inches long, 2 feet wide, and l
foot thick. The two arches on the cas- .
end of the bridge are not built in 4 .
water, but on bottom land, and are lov r
than the others, Sd there is a gradual ie-
clinatiOn from the end of the fOurtI arch
of about - deg. to the southern Z minus
Of the bridge. This is COnsi| .fed the
only defect in the bridge, as q approach
of a wagon cannot be see from either
end, and the roadway scarcely wide
enough for wagons ass It's twas
about $40. 600