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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 325
of Pond Beat. A map of Madison County compiled and drafted by G.W. Jones, C.E., dated June 1909, shows the Darwins and the Woodwards were neighbors. In 1909, the property on the west side of the southern end of what is now called McAlpine Road (shown on some old maps as Green Grove Road) was owned by Mrs. George Darwin. The property was bounded on the south by the Tennessee River and on the west by an inlet of the Tennessee River. Annie Jamar owned a very narrow strip of property between the inlet and the river??"it was taken (its sale required) by TVA. The property on the other side of the road, to the east, was owned by the Woodwards. C. (Charles) owned the parcel along the road north of where the property of J.W. Woodward began. J.W. (John) owned a parcel along the road to the south of that, and J. and C. Woodward are shown to own the eastern parcel that extended to the river; thus, the Tennessee River formed the southern and eastern boundaries of the Woodward property. Mrs. Darwin was no longer the owner of that property at the time of the sale of the land to the Army, and the land was no longer in the Darwin family. I. Schiffman & Co, Inc. had purchased a large amount of land due to owner bankruptcy, and they owned the land shown on the 1909 map as belonging to Mrs. Darwin, including a parcel extending across the road to the east once owned by J.W. Woodward. The I. Schiffman & Co. Inc. property being discussed here is Parcel-F-289 on the Army Real Estate Map. A section of the 1909 map has been reproduced below to illustrate the Darwin and Woodward ownership. It shows the land of William Timmons (the Timmons Plantation) which was mentioned earlier. The parcels owned by the Woodwards in 1909 that were still owned by the Woodwards in 1941 were: Parcels F-277, F-294, and F-295 owned by Lee Woodward, and the small parcel by the Woodward Cemetery, F-279 owned by Charles Woodward. Excerpt from 1909 Madison County map drawn by G.W. Jones 325 - (4358)