The Blount County News, Thursday, May 28, 1885 The Cullman Celebration On Monday, the 25th inst., the citizens of Cullman celebrated the 12th anniversary of the founding of that colony by Col. John G. Cullmann. Preparations were made on a grand scale for a procession, public speaking a picnic, and a ball at night. The houses were arrayed in evergreens and the star-spangled banner floated in all directions. Everybody were dressed in holiday attire, and happiness depicted on every countenance. The procession consisted of several handsomely equipped and gaily trimmed carriages, festooned with evergreens, flowers, flags, preceded by the city marshal and his assistants. The first carriage contained the Cullman brass band discoursing sweet music, in the next sat Mayor Plato and the City Council, the Fire Co. with its apparatus next, etc., most assuredly Carter's chariot looked really splendid. After marching through the principal streets, it moved to the picnic ground where a pleasant time was anticipated, but as Robert Burns says, "The best laid plans of mice and men are oft agee." The picnic and speech making had to be abandoned on account of the incessant rain, but the ball at night was one of the finest ever held in Cullman.