>From: "Bannister, Lisa" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL >Content-Type: text/plain > >Steve, > >It doesn't exist as it did in the mid 1800's, though. It was a much more >densely populated area then. Many small communities in Coosa County were >much more thriving little towns then. Newhope located on an off road of Hway >22 is now just a few homes and Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church, but as >recently as the 1920's had two neighborhood gracery stores which had little >trouble staying in business. > >Lisa Lisa, My grandparents were both born in the northwestern area of Elmore County known then only as "Beat 14". These days, it's called Lightwood, except to those who've always been there (the "old-timers", as it were). I visited the area last week with a cousin I haven't seen in a great many years, and he kept referring to "the beat" as we drove. He mentioned the days during his childhood (he was born in the late 1940s) and early adulthood when the area supported as many as 9 stores with ease. Things sure have changed a lot, even since I went up that way as a child to visit my Grandfather. I wonder often what the area around Rockford was like when my father was born there in 1935. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray