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Gadsden
General Information
The first substantial white settlement
in what is now Gadsden was a tiny town called Double Springs. It was
begun by a mixed Indian-white settler named John Riley when he built
his house near two springs around 1825. It became a stagecoach stop
on the Huntsville-to-Rome route. The original house still stands
today as the oldest house in Gadsden. Shortly thereafter, they began
to purchase much of the land between Lookout Mountain, the Coosa
River, and down to the mouth of Wills Creek. Their land, plus that
of John S. Moragne and Joseph Rhea, became the first part of the
city of Gadsden. Double Springs was transformed on July 4, 1845,
when one Captain James Lafferty piloted the first steamboat to the
area, aptly named the Coosa. He landed near the site of the current
Memorial Bridge on that date. The Hughes brothers offered to name
the town "Lafferty's Landing" in his honor, but Lafferty declined.
Instead, the name Gadsden was chosen, in honor of Colonel James
Gadsden of South Carolina, famous for the later Gadsden Purchase.
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