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Farming For A Better Future, page 362
(Below) Excerpt from 1900 Federal Census, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama Showing Landowning Members of the Pond Beat Community (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com)
Some of these families are the descendants of the white landowners. Prominent in the community were the Joiners, Hortons, Jacobs, and Barleys. Yancy Horton, Sr. owned a large parcel of land, some of
which he gave to make the Rosenwald School that was named after him. The Jacobs family's matriarch was Fanny Jacobs, who arrived in Madison County a free woman before Emancipation.
In 1941, the families of Pond Beat were made to move out of south Madison in order for the U.S. government to establish Redstone Arsenal. Many of the families stayed in Madison county, moving
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