Hi David -- I'll go back and read the notes carefully. Thanks very much for the book titles. Perhaps my romantic view was not so romantic after all. Pat > -----Original Message----- > From: dddennis@concentric.net [SMTP:dddennis@concentric.net] > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:14 PM > To: ALCHILTO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: migration, by railroad in 1830s > > Hi Pat. I'm afraid the way I read the map notes, "R.R. chartered & > proposed" in brown, it appears that the R.R. was still in the planning > stages in 1839. > The best source I know of for this type info is; > AUTHOR Southerland, Henry deLeon. > TITLE The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and > Alabama, > 1806-1836 / Henry deLeon Southerland, Jr., and Jerry > Elijah > Brown ; maps by Charles Jefferson Hiers. > PUBLISHER Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1989. > > The Federal Road was the earliest road into the area fit for wagons and > was > the main route. It was guarded and had forts along it. It ran a similar > route to > the railroad into Montgomery and beyond. > > I saw this one when I searched for the ciatation above. I haven't seen the > book but it looks interesting also. > TITLE The very worst road : travellers' accounts of crossing > Alabama's > Old Creek Indian territory, 1820-1847 / compiled by Jeffrey > C. > Benton. > PUBLISHER Eufaula, AL : Historic Chattahoochee Commission of Alabama > and > Georgia, 1998. > DESC xii, 157 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. > > > > At 03:12 PM 4/16/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Hello list -- > >I have spent quite a bit of time wondering how my Billingsley ancestors > >(Clement and Cynthia/Rebecca), with their many, many children of several > >generations, migrated from Stafford Co., Virginia, to Autauga Co., > Alabama, > >in the early 1830s. At my most romantic, I pictured them traveling in > >wagons and walking, over a number of years. I especially wondered how > the > >women handled the feeding, clothing, and cleaning of their families > (since I > >assume they had primary responsibility for those tasks). > > > >Well, through a wonderful map a person on the Cuba list discovered, I've > >just learned that, according to an 1839 map, the Georgia railroad > connected > >Stafford Co. to Montgomery, AL. So, it seems quite possible that the > whole > >passel of them trekked to Alabama by train! > > > >Does anyone have good information on the usual forms of migration from > the > >mid-Atlantic states to Alabama in the 1830s (motivated in part, I assume, > by > >the availability of land)? > > > >Here's the link for the map, at the Library of Congress "American Memory > >page: > > > >http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html > > > >At the home page, click "Collection Finder," then "Maps" from the > right-hand > >menu. Scroll down and click "Railroad maps, 1828-1900," then "Browse by > >Geographic Location," then "Southern States," then "United States - > Southern > >States [1839]." Other selections back at the "Maps" page also have > >interesting maps. > > > >Pat, in Texas > > > > > > > David Dennis, dddennis@concentric.net, UsGebWeb webpage for Lincoln Co., > Ga + Chilton Co., Al, and Rootsweb mailing list owner for them and the > SWORDS-L lists, among other things.