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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... have long since rotted down, and should be replaced by those who have relatives and friends buried here. A small amount, subscribed by each one interested, would be sufficient to put it in a decent condition. CHAPTER XIII. Greenville--Early Settlement--Made the Seat of Justice--Gradual Progress--Business Men-- Changes Down to the Present. This thriving little city is beautifully situated on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, fortyfive miles south of Montgomery. The locality is healthful, the water freestone; the land, however, is not as level as it is in some other portions of the county; the soil is of the red clay variety, giving rise to an impalpable powder, or dust, in dry weather. Although Greenville is not a very large town, she is one among the first places settled in the State, having received a few emigrants as early as 1819. She has never made any rapid progress at any particular period of her history, but has gradually grown from a small village to her present size and importance. Like the great city of antiquity, Greenville was not built in a day. Previous to 1819, the present site of Greenville was a favorite resort for wild deer, hundreds of them often being seen at one time feeding upon the luxuriant growth of grass which covered her verdant hills, or lying down resting themselves in the cool and refreshing shade of the cane thickets that hid the mossy banks of the crystal streams from the face of the bright luminary of day. On the evening of the 14th of January, 1819, the peace of this happy forest of oaks was disturbed by a train of emigrants, who had come from the State of South Carolina to the new country in search of future homes. Being favorably impressed with the appearance of this locality, they stopped for the...