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Old Milton or Milton City, as it has sometimes been referred to, was begun in 1829, when a store was opened there. By 1880 it had grown to a real city, with brick-paved streets, numerous businesses, a bank, post office, and a bridge across Little Mulberry Creek. The population of 2,050 entitled Milton Beat to more delegates to the County Convention than any other beat except Prattville. However, the famous flood of 1886 deposited between two and three feet of sand on Milton City. Having no machinery for removing the sand, the people abandoned the place and Old Milton was to be no more. All that is left to tell of its glorious past is the cemetery (where ancestors of "Lady Bird" Johnson are buried) and some possible remains of the old L. B. Parker Saw Mill.
New Milton, i.e., the Milton of today, exists near the site of Old Milton, but perhaps a mile further west. Located on County Road 1, it is a tiny rural community, boasting only a church and one country store to serve a thinly scattered population.
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