”That part of Jefferson County where the first settlement was made, and which seems likely to be diverted into a great manufacturing city by the energy and capital of Mr. DeBardeleben and his associates, was in the early days considered the garden spot of Jefferson County. …The lands for a few miles east and north of Jonesboro brought as high, at public sale, as $100 per acre. This fine country was owned, when I first knew it, by such men as …George Ware,…”

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Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama, by John Witherspoon DuBose, 1887, page 58