![]() There are several other coves, among which is Roark’s, one of the largest in the county. It is watered by the head waters of Bean Creek. Buncombe Cove lies along the base of the mountain and is almost shut in by an outlier. There are several coves, among which Farmers’ Cove, Lost Cove, Round Cove and Sinking Cove lie upon the table-lands, and are wholly shut in by the mountains, beneath which their waters find outlet. In the western portion of the county, and running down the river, is found the black shale formation with its ” rock houses,” or alum and copperas caves, in which are often found native alum and copperas. West of the river lie the barrens, so-called, which afford considerable pasture, but the soil is thin and not good for agriculture. Then come the valley lands of the Elk River, which flows through the county from northeast to southwest. Along the western base of the mountain is a wide belt of land with a dark clay surface and red clay subsoil, furnishing a fine agricultural land. on account of its climatic advantages, to the raising of all kinds of fruit. The soil of the Cumberland Table-land is thin and sterile, but well adapted. The mean annual temperature of table land is 54 deg., of the rim 57 deg., of the basin 58 deg. The rim is about 1,000 feet above the level of the sea the table-land about 2,000 and the basin about 700. The latter is a blue limestone the former is gray, or grayish and blue. ![]() Louis formation, while that of the basin is the Nashville group. The limestone of the rim is the coral or St. The soil of the basin is almost entirely al calcareous that of the table- land is the sandstone soil. The soils of the rim are the siliceous or flinty, found in the basin on the inner half of the rim, and calcareous, found on the outer half, which is a red clay. The carboniferous strata are the surface rocks of the Highland Rim and the table-land. the basin in the silurian, the Cumberland Table-land in the carboniferous. The topography of the county is greatly diversified, a portion of it lying on the Cumberland Plateau, a portion in the valley of Elk River, a portion on the Highland Rim and a very small portion in the Central Basin. ![]() The works are viewed as a significant resource for American genealogists because they contain economic data and personal biographies of many prominent citizens.įRANKLIN COUNTY is bounded on the north by Coffee County, northeast by Grundy, east by Marion, south by the State of Alabama, west by Lincoln, northwest by Moore, and contains about 500 square miles, one-fourth of which lies on the Cumberland Mountain and Its western escarpment. The works were primarily divided into sections for each county they studied and provide an important snapshot of the lives and the economic situation that existed at that time. The company produced and published many works on local history and biography in the 1880s. (History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present, (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing, 1886) Goodspeed Publishing was based in Chicago, Illinois.
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