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Elyton (Ely's Town), Alabama, was the
county seat of
Jefferson County,
Alabama from 1821 to 1873. It was the county's
second seat,
after Carrollsville...
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Reconstruction period,
through the
merger of
three pre-existing farm towns, notably,
Elyton. It grew from there,
annexing many more of its
smaller neighbors, into an...
- got into an
argument with his friend, 19-year-old
Gregory Manson, in the
Elyton Village public housing community. In the
midst of
their scuffle, Broadnax...
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county seats were
established first at
Carrollsville (1819 – 21), then
Elyton (1821 – 73).
Founded around 1871,
Birmingham was
named for the industrial...
- the
Elyton Land
Company for the
purpose of "...
buying lands and
selling lots ... and
affecting the
building of a city, at or near the town of
Elyton, in...
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Charles H.
McCauley for the
Birmingham Realty Company,
successor firm to the
Elyton Land Company,
which was
major in
designing the
layout of the city of Birmingham...
- Birmingham's
first blast furnace on 50
acres (202,000 m²) of land
donated by the
Elyton Land
Company for
industrial development. The
engineer in
charge of construction...
- town was
located at the
crossroads of two
important trading routes: the
Elyton Road from
Selma to Birmingham, and the Fort
Jackson Road from Tuscaloosa...
- grew to encomp**** the
former site of
Elyton.
Arlington is one of the only
surviving structures from the time of
Elyton and is Birmingham's only antebellum...
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especially at
Elyton (present-day Birmingham) and Selma. The only
force remaining to
resist Wilson was
Nathan B. Forrest's
cavalry force.
Elyton fell to Union...
