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attention is paid to education, and some provision is made 

 for the instruction of poor children. Number of poor chil- 

 dren, 294. Educational fund, $254 97. 



Nature of the Soil, Value of Land. — The first quality 

 lands are on Alcovi river. Jacks and Hard Labour creeks, 

 mulatto soil, value $5 per acre. The second quality embraces 

 the gray lands, value $4 per acre. The third quality embraces 

 the ridge lands, value $2 per acre. 



Original Settlers. — R. M. Echolls, Vincent Harralson, 

 John Steel, Elisha Betts, W. T. Colquitt, David Johnson, Zac 

 Phillips, Capt. J. S. Means. Col. Blackburn, Wm. P. Easley, 

 Jesse Arnold. 



Mineral Springs. — There are no mineral springs of any 

 celebrity in the county. One mile north of Monroe is a spring, 

 said to possess chalybeate properties. 



Rivers, Creeks. — The rivers are the Appalachee and the 

 Ulcofauhachee. The creeks are Jack's, Cornish, Little 

 Haynes, Bay, Marbury's, Shoals, &c. 



Remarkable Places. — "The Cowpens" is a place of 

 some notoriety, known formerly as Easley's Cowpens. The 

 first court in Walton was held at this place. It is three miles 

 south of Monroe, and is beautifully situated with a fine spring. 



Jack's creek is celebrated for a battle fought, 21st of Sept., 

 1787, between the Indians, commanded by McGilvary, a half 

 breed, and the whites, commanded by Col. Elijah Clarke. The 

 force of the Indinns amounted to 800, the Americans 200. The 

 attack was made on the hill, three miles east of the spot upon 

 which Monroe now stands, by Clarke, in thVee divisions. The 

 battle commenced at 10 o'clock, and continued until sunset. 

 The Indians were defeated. The Americans carried their 

 dead about a mile into a branch, and there buried them 

 among the canes ; from which circumstance the place has 

 since been known by the name of " Dead Man's Branch." 



Number of Bags of Cotton. — Four thousand bags of 

 cotton are annually produced in this county. 



Miscellaneous Notice. — R. M. Echolls, President of the 

 Senate, lived in this county. He died in Mexico, and his re- 

 mains were brought to Walton, and buried at his homestead, 

 one mile from Broken Arrow. 



