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    1. Re: [ALBIBB] ***HINTON- DAIRY FARM*
    2. Good morning, BA,I happen to be a list member because I have ancestors from Bibb County, so I will take out and tell you a little information. The property you speak of is in Tuscaloosa County. Thirty miles from Bibb County line...it is on the road to Greensbora, (in Greene County), but it is now in city limits of Tuscaloosa, right at Englewood School...at a place, known as TAYLORVILLE, Al. the Hinton Dairy farm was on highway 69 South...Old Greensbora Road. It was there until just a few years ago, but had stopped producing many years ago, as did all Tuscaloosa dairies. The land, now has been sold off for houses, developed as Hinton Place, on the new highway 69 So... The Hinton family log cabin, under a big Oak tree and the well is still there, right in the middle of these expensive homes, called Hinton Place.The original log home burned shortly after it was built, ...and another built right next to the spot. I wrote you last year about the newer, wood structure, Hinton home, on the hill on highway 69 South, built around 1865.'80. It was blown down, in the December tornado that went through Tuscaloosa down there a few years ago, and killed several people. One house still stands, on that hill to the left of the old homeplace, that was built out of logs for a first married son,or a farm laboror... I think, and later lived in by the family cook, or nanny. Too, a house on the adjacent side road that was to the railroad crossing on the river, (Maxwell Crossing) and to the Hinton farm land,barn, etc..stands today, has the original house built during WW2 for a daughter that married and he was away in the navy She married a Hamner.The house has been redone and is nice.A large house, and barn, built behind it for some of the family...has been torn down in recent years and is now Mobile Homes. I wish I had known you when I was there and the road to the Dairy was a private one...and we rode horses there. Now there is a four lane highway right through it (new 69)...and it is SO DIFFERENT! I could have made you pictures of the mile long road to the Dairy that had a fence all the way to it, that was covered with antigue roses! Beautiful sight,I always wondered if they brought them there from their homeland, and planted them.All of this has been scraped off to sell land! This place is in walking distance to Little Sandy Baptist Church, on the creek.(The original log church burned too and it was rebuilt out of wood) A new church next to it is open today. Big Sandy Baptist Church, is about two/three miles south on same highway.Gilgad Church is on Bear Creek Road,anout 5/6 miles to the East also in Tuscaloosa oounty. I came to Tuscaloosa in 1974, and we bought 11.8 acres of the Hinton land, that had been previously sold to Rev. Earnest White.I can make you a picture of the hill, where the house stood...(but all the very old cedars were blown down too).....and the one standing house on it if you like? Send me a private email with your snail mail.I wish some of the family would send you more history, with actual data. Lots of the Hinton family still lives here, and north of the city of Northport, at old Sipsey, is where the Hamners settled.there were some Hintons there too,I think it was called Hinton Corners or something like that. ...it was a corner of Greene County at one time. I have seen old historical markers there at an old church, to do with the early Hamners that founded it. I am sorry this is so long to the list, (but your message was gatewayed here).....when it is not in BIBB County, but I no longer have your address...just guessing at it. . Stella

    04/19/2007 03:41:56