Oak Forest Neighborhood Watch

05/03/2026

🌾 Early Origins (1820s)
Carrville’s documented history reaches back to the 1820s, making it one of the oldest towns in Tallapoosa County. It was named for Jessie A. Carr, an early settler who later became postmaster by February 26, 1894.
This period followed the Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) and the Treaty of Cusseta (1832), which opened the region to settlers after the Creek Nation ceded large portions of their land. Tallapoosa County itself was officially created in 1832, and Carrville was among its earliest communities.

🧵 A Mill Town With Regional Importance
Carrville sat on the east side of Tallapoosa County, directly beside East Tallassee. The two communities grew so close that they eventually blended into one another.
The area became known for textile manufacturing as early as 1844, developing into one of the best mill towns in Alabama and serving as a trading center for the surrounding agricultural region.

This industrial identity shaped the community for generations, drawing workers, families, and commerce to the area.

🗺 Growth, Maps, and Geography
Carrville appears in 20th‑century U.S. Geological Survey maps, including a detailed 1971 topographic quadrangle, showing its continued recognition as a distinct place even after merging with East Tallassee.

Its location along the Tallapoosa River corridor placed it within a historically important region tied to:

Creek War history

Early trade routes

The rise of mill villages

The later development of East Tallassee and Tallassee’s industrial identity

🏘 From Carrville to East Tallassee
Over time, Carrville and East Tallassee grew together physically and economically. Eventually, the name Carrville faded from everyday use, and the combined area became known simply as East Tallassee.

Even so, Carrville remains part of the foundational story of Tallapoosa County, listed among its earliest towns alongside Alexander City, Dadeville, Suzanna, and Walnut Hill.

04/26/2026

All these American girls died from Nuclear test the gov did. They were not informed but all developed cancer and died before age 30.

In July 1945, a group of thirteen years old girls went camping. They swam at a river in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl in front of the picture is Barbara Kent. What the girls did not know is that nearby, the Manhattan Project detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…

Kent described what happened that day:
“We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.” A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”

The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Mu**to valley. The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet those living near the bomb site weren't warned of the test. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days…

Barbara Kent and all her friends developed cancer. Every single one of the girls you see in that photo, died before the age of thirty. The only one who lived longer was Kent. And she, too, developed and survived several bouts of cancer. People often forget of the heavy price paid not only by those the atomic bombs were dropped on in Japan, but even by those who lived nearby as they were first developed.

Dapo Michaels one, fascinated by science, who worked in the project. Wasn't aware of the effect and long term effect. When he saw it, his brain paid him back. He went crazy out of shame, felt responsible and blamed himself. Within a few years he was not able to live at home anymore and went to a mental hospital and died..

Just the same as Marilinga in Australia. How many Aboriginals died of cancer that we don't even know about..

04/26/2026

Tallapoosa County Names (Towns and Communities)

04/26/2026

https://sleuthmatron.blogspot.com/2026/04/cemeteries-are-not-simply-places-of-rest.html