The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
To the Editor of The Age Herald:

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Sunday in Bibb county is usually quiet time, especially if you have passed the effervescent period before ones twenty birthday. and to- day a pleasant southern breeze makes 1t especially fit for dreams oi the future or retrospects, if you have &C., cumulated years enough of tn past.
 The article in todays paper in re- gard to the prospects of the Muscle Shoals proposition could not but bring dreams of its wonderful possi- bilities and being ITO the manor born" memory claimed it's share and brought back a vision of a hand some elderly gentleman doing busi- ness at the little hamlet of South Florence and a coterie of nelghbor- ing planters who met daily for theIr mail and social converse.
 The conversation had turned on the wisdom of 2 party of gentlemen who had sold Nashville property and founded the town of Florence, with the view that it would surpass the Tennessee capital
 "Gentlemen," said Mir. Price, Look at these seven hills around you, on them one day will be a city that will 'tA P6DS NhV GAOlS Ol lIiS CdPiLdl OA the Roman republic" and with that came the memory, as it was then, of the land of the beautiful river.
 More beautiful even than the far famed Hudson was the ver1ic. of those who had seen both.
 Along about 1917 Old Hickory had been commissioned to remove the h. dians from the Tennessee valley to the Indian territory, and With linn came John Coffee, his brother in law and right-hand man, his second in command in his Indian warfare.
 Among the generals closest friends at that time but no relation was James Jackson of Nashville and the two others were so impressed that they suggested that he come out and lock over the new country.
 Like his friends he was wonder fully impressed and he and Coffee en- tered large tracts of land on bo.h sides of the river sold their Nash vile holdings, formed the Cypress Land company, of which James Jack son was first president, built coun- try homes and moving their families were thereafter identified with the new state.
 Glencoe in the Fifties
 At the time of MT. Prices prophecy in the last of the fifties two of the second generation of Jacksons owned plantations close to South Florence. William had a place he called Glen COG, purchased from his fathers es- tate and gotten by the latter from the Irdians and only about one-half a mile frcra the landing and George, the younger, had placa called Moorefields, about two and one-half miles to the southeast.
 The wisdom of the fathers move hld been under discussion and the younger son had closed # with the remark that what his father might have done was a matter of surrnise, but as he had left a sufficient es- tate to leave nine children ricn his financial juogment was not open to argument.
 Then MT. Price made his prophecy.
 Florence sits on a high hill on the north side of the river with quite width of rive~ bottom between is and the stream while on the south it's waters sweep against precipitous limestone bluffs broken by ravines, to the sides Of which they slope with steep curves. N-
 About mile south from the land-N ifg the plsleau breaks into a wide rayine winch has been transformed into a road as the most accessible route to the most available landing; as just opposite it's mouth runs a sharp ledge of rock clearly visible at low water with deep water only a few hundred yards below. Here was the cotton from all the surrounding country, 30 miles and even more,. hauled for shipment to the New Or leans market and coffee, sugar, clothing and hardware, brought on the return trip of the boat, hauled back to supply the country.
 Of course, boats were uncertain and cotton and supplies had to be cared for while waiting so to the south of the mouth of the ravine the hill was dug away and warehouses built against it, with stone paved road in frcnt running to the ferry landing short distance below, while the steamboats tied up and handled their cargoes with almost no cost.
 The ravine had quite a spread just of room for camping and South Flor ence did business almost equal to a small city
 Time rolls it's ceaseless course and the 40 years that had elapsed since the Indians had left for the country that was to be theirs, so long as grass grew and water ran, had brought wonderful changes to the Tennessee valley. Gone was the Forest Primevap' and in it's place were broad fields, green in the win ter time with carpets of wheat and rye and oats and barley; stretches of clover in the May time with it's my