Alexander City, Alabama 125th Anniversary: 1873-1998

By Bob Saxon; Walter P. Mayfield, Jr.; Thomas Byron Saunders

1998 first edition, Alexander City 125th Celebration Committee (Alexander City, Alabama), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound in full color glossy covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 88 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare local history. Not in OCLC.

An anniversary history of Alexander City, known to locals as 'Alex City,' a city in Tallapoosa County, eastern Alabama known for Lake Martin with its 750 miles of wooded shoreline and 44,000 acres of water on the Tallapoosa River. Alexander City was incorporated in 1872 as Youngsville, after its founder James Young. In 1873, the Savannah and Memphis Railroad came to the city. The city was renamed in honor of the railroad's President Edward Porter Alexander, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg for the Confederate States.

Contents:

• The Town That Moved Out on the Bypass
• Youngville at Dawn
• Youngville Beat
• Working on the Railroad
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Alexander City Market Town
• The May Singing
• And It's 1890
• The Fire
• The Recovery
• The Good Years
• Alexander City: A New Century
• Women Look Back
• In the Evening
• The Way We Were
• The Fire Escape
• A College is Born
• Man of the Year
• First Lady
• Benjamin Russell
• Down on the Lake
• Alexander City Today