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From: "GC Floyd" <>
Subject: Re: [ALDEKALB] "Town Creek" Community location?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:52:50 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030410065022.01a28e38@mail.ixpres.com>


If you ask anyone in DeKalb County, Alabama about Town Creek they will
direct you to Sand Mountain...and maybe even to the McCracken Wash Hole on
Town Creek in the Lydia / Guest / Pleasant Hill communities...named after
your maternal grandfather's family. Everyone here knew Oliver McCracken.

There is, however, an incorporated city of Town Creek, AL in the northwest
quadrant of the state...not nearly as significant, of course.

r/GCF


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cole Owen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: [ALDEKALB] "Town Creek" Community location?


> Hi:
>
> Does anyone know where the community of "Town Creek" was located?
>
> I have seen reference to it (again, the community, not the stream of
water)
> in various late 1800 references. I think it must have been on Sand
> Mountain or "just off the mountain" fairly near the intersections of
> Dekalb, Jackson and Marshall Counties, probably on the banks of Town
Creek,
> and probably fairly close to where Town Creek joins the TN River.
However,
> I haven't found it on any old maps and I don't think the community
> continues to exist.
>
> My interest in Dekalb families include Owen, Corley, Denton, Argo,
> McCracken, Durham, Haynes, Deavours (Devers), Miller, Milwee, among other
> allied families. Happy to share info that may be of interest to anyone.
>
> Thanks for your time and any assistance anyone might provide on the Town
> Creek community.
>
>
> Cole Owen
> San Diego, CA
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