Post on 22-Dec-2015
Alabama Agriculture History Before 1950
• European and African settlement was delayed until the Native Americans were moved out or forced out.
• Original European and African settlement was in the best farmland in the valleys, along the Black Belt and near Huntsville.
• Later settlement moved into the smaller northern valleys and hills, mostly by small scale white farmers of Scots-Irish descent.
• By 1920, pretty much all land was densely settled and farmed
• The northern areas were in small farms, on sandy soil, with mixed forest cover and pastureland, and with a long tradition of animal raising. Chicken farming later developed here.