Talk:Fruitdale, Alabama

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GEOGRAPHICAL COMMENTS: Fruitdale has had several names, It appeared near a Mail Stop named Beinville on the on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, later it was called Lumberton, still later as Fruitdale. The community was settled by the Williams family sometime around 1800. It was situated between two early roads: the Hiwannee Path on the west and the McIntosh Trail on the east and north.

The Hiawanne Path was named after the Choctaw Chief of the town by the same name in Mississippi. It was the trading path from Hiwannee, Mississippi to Mobile, Alabama possibly established in the early 1700's.

(Another Indian trading path a few miles farther east was called the Big Trading Path and ran from the other, eastern Choctaw Indian towns in Mississippi and Alabama to Mobile.)

The McIntosh Trail was probably named after Alexander McIntosh who owned a plantation near McIntosh Alabama and another near Natchez, Mississippi where he also had a trading house. The trail was a shortcut from Fort McGillivary (south of McIntosh) to another trail (from StStephens to Natchez) in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The first street in Fruitdale is said to have been Central Avenue which ran from the McIntosh Trail on the east to the Hiwannee Path on the west side of town. There was said to have been a trading post near the intersection of the McIntosh Trail and Central Avenue.

The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was just west of Fruitdale and situated between the downtown area (along Federal Highway 45) and Brushy Creek. It was completed in the 1860s and linked the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico via Mobile, Alabama. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.240.2.125 (talk) 21:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)