The original currently resides in the Rhett home in Birmingham. Note the painting features the Fearn Canal built in 1825 to carry cotton from the Big Spring to the Tennessee River. The view is toward the west. The horse and buggy crossing the canal would be heading north on Church Street. To the upper left is the back of the First National Bank building.
   Huntsville had one of the first city water systems in the world. The Big Spring, with a daily capacity of 24 million gallons, furnished water for Huntsville until about 1957. The original water pipes were hollow cedar logs.

  MADISON COUNTY TREASURES are items of interest found by the volunteers of the Madison County Records Center which is located on the 3rd floor of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library.

Records Center Hours: Monday - Friday

9 AM - 5 PM

  For further information contact the Archivist: Phone 256-532-2347, or e-mail crecords@hpl.lib.al.us , or by regular mail to 915 Monroe Street, Huntsville, AL 35801.

	Estate of John Tate - 1817 Appraisement
	1818 Bond of Samuel Davis - A Suit for Freedom in the Alabama Territory
	Land Patent from Huntsville -1820
	1824 Sale of personal property of James Walker
	Prison Bounds of Huntsville - 1825
	Book Inventory from the Estate of Attorney John Beirne - 1831
	1841 Bond for the hire of slaves
	1844 Voucher for cotton being shipped from Triana
	Dower survey for Hester Moon 1846
	Guardianship of Maria Howard Weeden 1859
	1861 Petition of John Williams to become a slave
	1862 Patriotic Will of Union sympathizer Miles J. King of Huntsville
	Uncommon Civil War Pensions
	Huntsville and Big Cove Turnpike Company Stock Certificate - 1871
	Incorporation of New Hope 1879
	Examples of Business Letterheads in Madison County ca. 1900
	More Old Business Letterheads
	Keller Motors Corporation 1948