This history must necessarily contain much that is found in the other two, just as the second contains much that is found in the first but I have found a great deal which I have deemed worthy of permanent record, which is not embraced in either of the other two books and further, many matters merely touched upon in them I have presented much more fully. Harrell's history, there are now only a very few copies. There are quite a number of copies of this history in the city I suppose but of Mr. The book is a large one and contains many biographical sketches of citizens of Cairo. Bradsby, who had before that time resided in Cairo many years. The History of Alexander, Union, and Pulaski Counties, published in 1883, twenty-seven years ago, contains three several parts relating to Cairo. Harrell, then long a resident of Cairo, wrote an excellent short history of the city, and the same became the first fifty pages of a city directory of that year.
Besides this, I have not known of any one who had in contemplation the undertaking here attempted.
These have so accumulated that I have felt I could in no other way do a better service for the people of Cairo than by using them and other materials in the preparation of a history of the city. For many years I have preserved papers and documents relating to the city, not at first with a view to writing a history thereof, but just as any one would preserve papers or documents he regarded as of more than usual interest. I ought, therefore, to be fairly well acquainted with what has taken place, during that time, in and concerning the city and which was worthy of record or of a place in its history. I HAVE lived in Cairo forty years and during all that time have been engaged in the practice of the profession of the law. Opening of the Thebes Bridge, May 25th 1905. Stone Court House at Thebes, Erected in 1845. Geologic Map of the Gulf Embayment in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois.įirst School House, 1853. Stock Representing The Real Estate Of The City Of Cairo. Download the plug-in here, if you do not already have it. Some Images in this document are in DjVu format and require a free DjVu plug-in to view.
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