Flintville School

From an article titled "A Description of Flintville" in the April 4, 1878 edition of the Fayetteville Observer: "Flintville is a small village situated in Lincoln County, at the head of Flint River, on the Winchester and Alabama railroad, about 14 miles from Fayetteville.  It has about 40 houses and 160 inhabitants.  This is one dry-goods store, one saloon, and one blacksmith shop, and joining it is a family grocery kept by the funny old man, one wagon shop, one carpenter's shop, and one government distillery,  one cooper's shop, one grist mill superintended by a jolly miller, one saw mill.  There is one board-house, two churches, Methodist and Baptist, over the Methodist, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has their hall.  We have a very neat school-house.  There are two physicians, one dentist, and three ministers.  Flintville is a very pleasant place to live....