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Elkmont’s Rise and Fall A Railroad Town Revisited
Elkmont in Limestone County grew via the Nashville and Decatur line after 1856, incorporated 1873 with a depot center lot. It boomed in the 1890s with cotton trade, banking, and a high school, then declined as roads favored Athens, leaving a faded town slowly regaining population and a new post office and school.
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Blemont
Limestone County
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Elkmont
Nashville and
Decatur
U. S
North Alabama
Old Fort Hampton
Elkton
Nashville
Thomas Phillips
F. G. Wilson
J. C. McWilliams
H. C. Redus
J. A. Pettus
Athens
Ed Gray
Mt. Rozell
Elk
Tennessee
Fred Gray, Jr
R. H. Walker
Limestone Democrat
Alva Powers
Willis B. Vaughan
Farmer’s and Merchants Bank
State National Bank of