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DeKalb County Historical Site Survey

 File — Box: Series 7, Box 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: r07_01-03
r07_01-03
r07_01-03

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Frances Cabaniss Roberts collection covers the historical records of the Cabaniss Roberts family. This collection contains extensive correspondence records of the Cabaniss Roberts family circa 1830 to 1930.

Dates

  • Creation: 1830 - 1930

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Extent

From the Collection: 105 Linear feet (143 boxes and 19 oversize.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

General

1836 3
1840 3
1856 3
1871 3
1884 built 1
1884 2
1889 1
1890 2
2nd county seat 10
30,000 troops occupied area 27
60,000 Federal troops here 11
A. L. Lowry Home 15
added addition to house 25
added rabbit hair to brick 12
Airways & Airports 7
aka French Flats Boarding House 18
aka McSpadden Boarding House 18
AL congressman &amp 34
Alabama Great Southern RR Depot 23
Alabama 5, 6, 7, 8, 34
Allen 's Spring 11
Alpine, AL 33
American Board of Missions 26
another name for Boom houses 15
architect of building 23
artifacts found in area 22
Auburn, AL 14
Banks 30
Battelle Memorial Institute 23
Battelle, Gordon 23
Battelle, John Gordon 23
Battelle 8, 23
Baxter Family history 14
Baxter, Duncan 14
Baxter, James 9
Baxter, Willis 9
believed to be 200 million yrs. old 19
Big Willis Valley, AL 10
Big Wills 9
Birmingham, AL 14, 25
Bishop of the Ozarks 16
Boom houses of Fort Payne 15, 18
Bootsville 10
born in VA 26
Boston, MA 23
bought building 11
Boundaries 7
Bowen houses of Ft. Payne 2
Brainerd Mission 26
Brewer, Steve, Dr. 18
Buck's Pocket 24, 29
builder 34
built &amp 12
built bridges, stairways in cave 19
built Davenport Home 18
built house 24
built hydroelectric plant 21
built Leath Home 19
built Lindbergh's plane 24
built Lowery Home 11
built Mentone Springs Hotel 24
built mill after Civil War 22
built The Oaks 25
buried at mission 26
Burt's Swimming Hole 10
Caldwell, Frank, Dr. 24
Camden 10
came to TN 26
Campbell, Alexander 9
Casey Grist Mill 8
caves called rock houses 21
Cemeteries 30
Chattanooga, TN 14, 26
Cherokee Cession of 1835 25
Cherokee chief 10
Cherokee Treaty 10
Cherokee Village 9
Cherokees wounded there 10
Cherokees 9, 19
Cherokee 3, 8, 18
Chickamauga battle 11
Chickamauga campaign 11
chief engineer for project 23
Churches 30
Church 32
Cincinnati, OH 23
City & Village Centers 7
Classified structures & sites for study 30
clock from old courthouse 20
Coal & Iron Company 12
Collegedale, TN 14
Collins, Alfred 20
Collinsville Baptist Church 20
Collinsville Church 1
Collinsville Home 2, 4
Collinsville Presbyterian Church 15
Collinsville, AL, structures 20
Collinsville, AL 21
Collinsville, DeKalb Co., AL 15
Collinsville 29, 31
Columbus, GA 33
Columbus, OH 23
Confederate government 19
Conservation & Recreation 7
county history 14
county seat at one time 10
county seat for 36 yrs. 25
county seat moved to Fort Payne 25
county seat 12
Cricket Theater clock tower 20
Crossville 29
Crystal Lake, AL 10
Crystal Lake, Fort Payne, AL 9
Davenport Home 2, 8, 18
Davenport, R. R. 11
Davenport, Rodolph, Capt. 22
Davis Mill 30
Davis, Jefferson C., General 11
Davis, Jefferson C. 27
DeKalb Co., AL 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
DeKalb County newspaper 11
DeKalb County, AL 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
DeKalb Hotel 12
designed &amp 24
DeSoto Falls 12, 20, 21
DeSoto State Park 13
DeSoto's Rock Houses 21
Dobbs family 11
Dobbs, James 25
donated courthouse 12
donated land for courthouse 11, 25
Dr. Brewer's home 18
Drainage & Natural Features 7
Educational & Correctional Institutions 7
electric power supplied to area 21
Elrod Home 17
Elrod, William, Rev. 17
enforced Treaty of Echota 10
established by Ard Hoyt 26
established mining village 23
Factories 30
Farm Units, Dwellings, etc. 7
Faulkner, John Napoleon Boneparte 12
Federal land office 25
Federal Troops 10
Federal Writers' Project 14
final location of county seat 10
first county seat 10
first name of falls 12
first white settler in area 26
Foreman, Grant 14
Forest Lawn Cemetery 34
Fort Payne Coal & Iron Co. 12, 18, 19
Fort Payne Investment Company 19
Fort Payne Opera House 15, 23
Fort Payne, AL 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26
founder of Collinsville 20
Fowler, Margaret 14
Fraternal organizations 30
Frazier family 11
Frazier, Dorcas 25
French Flats Boarding House 18
French Flats 1
Gardner, James, Dr. 26
Gen. Davis led troops 11
George C. Hudson & Company 14
Geraldine 29
Gilbert, Rudolph 22
Glendale, CA 34
grave at mission 26
Green, A. B., Doctor 12
Grove Oak, AL 24
Guess, George (or Gist) 10
Haralson, W. Jeff, Judge 25
Haralson, W. W., Judge 25
Haralson, William John, Judge 25
Henager Valley Head 29
Highway Bridges 7
Historic Highway Markers of AL 23
Historic Sites of DeKalb Co., AL 23
Historical notes 33
History of Alabama 14, 21
History of DeKalb County, AL 14
History of Fort Payne 14
Hitching Post 35, 36
home called Cherokee 18
Home 4
House 4
Howard's Chapel 8, 16, 33, 34
Howard, C. M., Colonel 33
Howard, Max, Mrs. 6
Howard, Melfred 34
Howard, Milford W. 16
Howard, Milford 16
Howards Chapel 1
Hoyt was supt. of mission 26
Hoyt, Ard, Rev. 9
Hoyt, Ard 26
Hughes, David Durham 22
in Forest Lawn Cemetery 34
Indian Caves & Fortifications 21
Indian Falls 12
Industrial 7
J. A. Corley Home 15
Jackson Printing Company 14
Jackson, President 10
Jacoway, W. V. 14
Jesse Larmore Home 17
John Ross letter 14
Kidd Home 21
Kirk'O the Heather Chapel 34
Landmarks & Pictorial History 14
Landmarks of DeKalb Co., AL 18
Larmore, Lilla, Miss 17
Larmore, Margaret 26
Larmore, Vance 26
Law offices 30
lawyer, state legislator for 15 yrs. 27
Leath Home 2, 8, 19
Leath, Fred 15
Lebanon Chapel & Community Center 22
Lebanon Chapel 4, 8
Lebanon Community Center 8
Lebanon Courthouse 3, 8
Lebanon post office 11, 25
Lebanon, AL 10, 22, 25
Lebanon 10, 29
led troops 27
Little River Canyon 12
Little River, DeKalb Co., AL 21
Little Wills Valleys 9
lived in county 10
Lookout Mountain 9
Lookout, The Story of a Mountain 14
Lowery Home 11
Lowry Home 2, 22
Malone Tavern 8
Manitou Cave as shelter 19
Manitou Cave 6, 19
masonry work at courthouse 12
McSpadden Boarding House 18
Menio, Georgia 21
Mentone Hotel 1
Mentone Springs Hotel 24
Mentone, AL 21, 35, 36
Mentone 29
Metzger, Abram Boyce 14
Mill on Wills Creek 1
Miller, A. A. 21
Mills on Wills Creek 1
Miscellaneous Structures 7
Miscellaneous 7
Mission leader died 1828 9
missionary 26
Mrs. Sarah P. Sawyer Home 15
name of cabin 26
name of Sequoyah 10
National Register of Historic Places 15
National Register 1
Navigation 7
Nicholson, George B. 23
Oak Lawn 22
Oaks 25
Odd Fellows Club 12
officers headquartered here 11, 27
Old Davis Home 15
Old Lebanon Homes 22
Old Mill on Big Wills Creek 3
Old Slave Quarters 1
opera house cost $80,000 23
Opera House 12
owner of building 25
owner of Lowry home 15
owner of The Oaks 25
patterned after chapel in CA 34
Payne, John, Captain 10
Photos 1
Pickett, Albert James 14, 21
pioneers 9
Portervile Depot 24
Porterville Depot 1
Porterville, AL 10
Porterville 10
Powell's Crossroads 29
property owners 33
Public Service Facilities 7
publisher 11
Railroads 7
Rainsville 29
Rawlingsville Salt works 11
Rawlingsville 10
Red Head Will (Cherokee chief) 9
Rice, W. O. 23
Road System Designation 7
Roads & roadway features 7
Ross, John 10, 14
Ryan Home 3, 8, 24
Ryan House 1
Ryan, Albert 24
Ryan, Charles 24
Sand Mountain 9
Sand Valley, AL 10
Sand Valley 9
Sawyer, Sarah, Mrs. 17
Sequoyah marker 15
Sequoyah 10, 14
Shannon home 11
Shannon Home 25
Shannon, Paul, Mrs. 25
Sites & structures for further study 18, 20
Sites & structures recommended 15
Smith, P. J. 11
son of John Gordon Battelle 23
Spaulding was president 18
Spaulding, A. C. 18
spent night at Ryan Home 24
Spirit of St. Louis 24
Stafford, Evelyn, Mrs. 11
Taft, Howard, President 24
TARCOG 33
Taylor, Charles C. 23
Terry Home 15, 17
The Oaks 1, 2, 6
Thomason, Robert L. 14
Thomason, Rosary L. 14
Tiffany glass 18
took salt petre from Mnitou Cave 19
Towers, Dilly (slave) 12
Treaty of Echota 10
troops sent to area 10
Union troops 27
University of Oklahoma 14
Unresearched Areas for later surveys 29
Usry Home 6
Usury Home 19
Valley Head Depot 2, 28
Valley Head Home 22
Valley Head, AL 11, 20, 21, 26
Vance Larmore Home & Slave Qtrs. 19
Vance Larmore Home 1
Venable Home 2, 20
Virginia 26
Walker, Robert Sparks 14
Washington, DC 14
Will's Town 8
William Winston was president 27
Willistown Mission Site 26
Willistown Mission 9
Willistown, AL 9
Wills Creek 22
Wills Valley Railroad 27, 30
Wills Valley, DeKalb Co., AL 27
Willstown Mission Site 6
Willstown 22
windows in Spaulding's home 18
Winston Gap 11
Winston Place 1, 3, 8, 11, 26, 27
Winston, W. C. 11
Winston, William Overton 26
Winston, William 27

Repository Details

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