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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 261
During the researcher's visit to the home of Emma Horton in March of 2001, Emma showed her a clipping of an article written by Dale James that she had saved from the June 9, 1991 issue of the Huntsville Times. The article was about family reunions held by those who once lived in Mullins Flat and Pond Beat.
>CuOOi!h. rney even octi// the churches and the schools.”
Farmers in (he area traveled to Huntsville to sell their produce.
Horton recalls, "My granddaddy had a horse and buggy. We would come to Huntsville once a week or every other week. They had a chain all the way around the courthouse and people would hitch their wagon to that chain.
"Down from the Russel Erskine Hotel, where you pay your electric bill, they had a dairy."
The War Department's decision in 1941 to appropriate the land surrounding Mullins Flat for a chemical warfare plant stirred intense feelings among area farmers. Some, Horton hints, felt
Amanda's children *v.rr.he touc**f b> Jack Horton. That s th pan. When I started _
>1 a lot of the older P^"'
A??"“'Latere think it's important to kn"?* you come from," hv
Because of the ev ils wrou^ . slavery, many blacks ^“LTrne, to rattle the family tree. F"?r the experience remains uncomfortably close. ..
"They don't want you to talk about slavery,” says Mrs, Taylor* “It's not easy for some peop'e 10 accept. This gets to be a very touchy situation ??" very touchy- A lot of people don't want to know - / want to know.
“It's still difficult for us as a people to know where we came from, whereas the history other races have has already been written ??" and is still being written. If we don't dig for it, we won't find it."
Geraldine Horton Taylor and Ovoy Horton. Source: The Huntsville Times, June 9, 1991.
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