The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-22
Greensboro, a Typical
 Town of the South

ing with the year of 1905 is going up.
 A little over a year ago the opera house block was burned to the ground. It was an old building. but fine one, put up in an expensive manner A cheaper building to succeed 1t would never do. A cheap structure would be out of harmony with Greensboro's solidity and Greensboro's conservatism. So a new block was built by the owner of the property. President Blunt or the Bank of Greensboro, a new block costlier and finer than the other. whose walls were heavier and whose interior decorations were of finer or- der. From this new block comes Greensboro's claim to having the hand somest and the best small opera house in Alabama.
 Maia Street v as once a country lane. Today it Is a city pavement. The town grew up on either side of this country lane which was sometimes muddy and sometimes sandy. In time the lane came to follow all else in Greensboro along the way of progress. The native soil was ripped up, big pieces of chert were put down at the bottom of the new city street and small pieces of chert were put at the top. Today for two miles Main Street as 1t runs it's way through the town of Greensboro is as well paved and very like the fash ionable thoroughfare of South Perry Street in the city of Montgomery.
 The purpose in recalling these two or three circumstances is to cite evil dences of the way the town has kept abreast of the times and advanced with enhanced beauty and strength. half hundred beautiful and well ordered homes could be as easily cited even as could be half hundred, neat and im- pressive business houses whose fronts are solid and handsome and whose in- teries are tasteful and attractive.
 Are Home Builders.
 Our people are home builders" said W. E. w Yerby. editor of The Watch man. and lately president of the Ala home builders above all else. They know the delights and the attractions of Greensboro and they are here to stay. There is nobody camping out in Greensboro"
 Greensboro crowns a high and heal thy ridge which divides two distinctly different soils of West Alabama. Above east and north are the sandy lands. below to the south and west lie the rich and fertile acres of the Black Belt. It has been and is yet typically plantation city.
 The rich owners of the great pro- ductive plantations which surround the city before the war made their homes in Greensboro for part of the year at least, even as they have done since the war. The old planters, it may be said, were chiefly farmers because of the splendid homes which they erected and the lordly way in which those homes were maintained. Whatever in- terest attaches to the opulence of the plantation system during and after slavery attaches to Greensboro.
 Out of this same town of Greensboro have come some of the best and sweet est singers of plantation and Southern songs and tellers of plantation and Southern stories. Of the picturesque old order, Mrs. Gsielow and Miss Mar tha Young have told the outer world. and none could be better equipped by environment for the very atmosphere here is of those same songs and sto- ries.
 The memory, the influence of slavery is fresher here perhaps than anywhere else In Alabama. Here more than any where else perhaps in the State the men who owned and operated the big West Alabama plantations es-