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Pell City – City Well Property Dispute
Daily Home – Petition granted to condemn well property
PELL CITY — St. Clair County Probate Judge Mike Bowling granted a petition by the city to condemn the former Avondale Mills’ well property.The well property is located along U.S. 231, and is now owned by Pell City-Tifton Properties, LLC, which is a subsidiary of Thunder Enterprises of Chattanooga.
Thunder Enterprises bought most of the Avondale Mills properties in Pell City, about one year after the local plant closed in 2007.
Avondale Mills allowed the city to operate the well on the condition that it kept the property up and provided free water to the company’s Pell City plant.
According to documents obtained by The Daily Home, the city had an option to renew a 20-year well lease with Avondale but failed to do so within the required time frame.
Pell City-Tifton Properties, LLC, offered to sell the one-acre commercial plot to the city for $1.9 million but eventually lowered its price to $1 million.
Little claims Creeks have claim to McClellan | AnnistonStar.com
Anniston Councilman Ben Little is warning local banks and real estate companies that old documents show the Creek Indian tribe may have claim to McClellan property, but his own claim may not hold up.
The mapping department in the Calhoun County Revenue Commissioner’s Office says the documents don’t support Little’s assertions.
In fact, the documents don’t even refer to land at McClellan. The land described in the documents is in Jacksonville and includes much of the Jacksonville State University campus.
Little said Monday he’d been distributing the material to local real estate firms and banks to discourage them from investing in projects at the former military post.
“The intent is to inform them, the bankers, the lending institutions,” Little said. “… I would not move forward in spending another dime until this thing is cleared up.”
Little’s actions are his latest attempt to call into question the control of McClellan. He, along with Councilman Herbert Palmore and former Councilman Stan Bennett, have worked against state legislation that would recognize the McClellan Development Authority.
McClellan officials say they are not worried about Little’s claims. Little, for his part, said he is not worried about the contradictory information from the mapping office, saying he believes the tribe does have claim to some McClellan property. He offered no proof of this, however, when asked for it Monday.
Little obtained the records he is circulating from the Calhoun County Probate Office. They include a document filed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management in 2003. The document contains a 1912 federal law relinquishing the government’s claims to lands in Alabama reserved earlier for the Creek tribe and its members. Little also included another document filed in the probate office in 2004. That document, dated 1836, refers to property that mapping department officials say is in Jacksonville.
Probate officials did not know why the documents were filed in recent years.
The second document references 29 sections of property, apparently part of a grant of land made to the tribe and to individual members in an 1832 treaty.
A section is equal to 640 acres. The one section described specifically in the document encompasses the northwest quarter of the city of Jacksonville. The mapping department said the document makes no reference to any land at McClellan….
via Little claims Creeks have claim to McClellan | AnnistonStar.com.
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Strange twist in the Anniston-McClellan reuse struggle…
– Cathy
