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Beginnings of NE Morgan County Founders and Roads
Northeastern Morgan County grew from Indian trails to roads and river traffic as settlers from Virginia North Carolina and Tennessee arrived. Prominent early names include Lacey Criscoe Ditto Hughes Ryan Vaughan and Miller with landings at Ditto s and a stage line from Somerville to Blountsville shaping the valley grows into a suburban region.
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Triana
Morgan County
Great River
Cotaco Creek
Moulton Valley
Florence - Tuscumbia
Lacey’s Spring
Brindley Mountain
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Savannah
Philadelphia
Montgomery
Collinsville
Ft. Deposit
Guntersville
Huntsville
Bear Meat Cabin
Blountsville
Mud Tavern
Cahaba
Whitesburg
NE Morgan
Great Bend
Ditto’s
Plymouth Rock
Johnson’s
Toluca
Cain’s
Mitchell’s
Sunnyside
Gilcrease’s
Tennessee Valley
Lacey
Ditto
Morgan City
Union Hill
Waldermosa
Somerville
Florette
Apple Grove
Center Grove
Ryan’s Crossroads
Hulace
John Lacey
Stanley Hoole
Alabama
Vaughan
Cotaco-Somerville
Vaughns
Elk River
Limestone County
Micajah Vaughan
Dicey Wesson Vaughan
Micajah
Waldermose Springs
William Vaughan
Minoah
M. T. Vaughan
Thomas
Vaughans
Madison County
Hezekiah Balch
George A. Johnson
Rolin Vassar
George
Jemima Criscoe
Abercrombie
Lenox
Hughes
North Carolina
Hughes Hollow
Cotaco
Ditto’s Landing
John Ditto
J. O. Hughes
Martin Ditto
John
Skidmores
Skidmore Chapel
Hipps
Lynns
Old Lynntown
Wintons
Arkansas
Winton
Griffins
Decatur
O. D. Griffin
Hill Country
Pleasant Grove
Hamiltons
Adkins
McAnears
Hamilton
Cotaco Valley