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From what I'm seeing in this reading, they did use Alabama bricks until the structure for brickmaking was set up here. Then we had a bunch of them. One was owned by Marianna Pingrow Bonifay. She's an interesting character who got away with a lifestyle I cannot imagine any other female even trying in that time. Her husband was dead,he fought in some war for Spain. She then went on to have children and become a successful business woman but never remarried. The fact that she was openly connected with a very noted citizen (the father of most of her children) has all of the making for a really juicy novel. There's a marker honoring her in the median on Garden Street just south of St Michael's Cemetery.

I've been rereading the path of the mill burnings and as I was doing so, there has been some of that lightning in the sky that almost doesn't stop. Keeps going but it's above the clouds so the sky lights up all night. It made me think of what it had to be like when they did torch those mills. East Bay would have been full of light and just across, Blackwater and it's mills. They had only just opened one down the road at Millview. There's a legend of a soldier being killed and buried in the little cemetery there across the street from Perdido Bay. The Yankees burned them though not the Confederates.

I noticed on American Pickers that they found a sword built at Dog River for the Museum of the Confederacy collection. They noted that finding one nowdays is a rare find.

Pam

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"Dog River Sword" a Confederate euphemism?
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