Clarke County Democrat

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Jackson’s springs “Saratoga of the South”

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Items from past issues of The Clarke County Democrat

150 Years Ago November 1872

“Ice was seen in this county Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings of last week [it would have been the end of October]. The yellow fever is rapidly disappearing from the cities it has visited and business and a return of absentees are gratifying features and evidences of the changed conditions of things.”

Letter from Jackson: “A few transient visitors still remain, imbibing the sparkling water from our to-be world-renowned “Saratoga of the South.” The ladies, God bless them! turn out in their usual gay attire, and our streets, on those love summer evenings, would compare favorably with Dauphin Street, Mobile…We have no gog shops, no school house, no resident preacher, no money; but we have three Doctors, and God knows that is bad enough for one town. Being a timid, as well as a modest man, I will not give you a definite delineation of them.”

A tornado passed about a mile north of Grove Hill Sunday night last with great destruction. “The top of the residence of Mr. S. P. Chapman, two miles west of town, was blown off — his cribs, stables and other buildings blown down, and his corn, fodder and products terribly scattered and destroyed.”

The residence of F. M. Stringer, a mile and a half east of town, was blown down as was the kitchen of J. J. Brackett nearby.

“A deep and terrible roaring accompanied the destructive wind. If it had passed a few hundred yards further south, our little town would have been almost entirely swept away.”

Last Thursday morning (this was Nov. 25) the weather was the coldest we have had this season — 25 degrees.”

“Marion Lodge, No. 12, meets at Suggsville, on the 2d Saturday in each month.”

 

 

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