“Footprints of Fayette”

Fayette County One Hundred Years Ago, Part I

of a three-part series of stories of events that occurred in Fayette County 100 years ago.

The January 21, 1926, La Grange Journal stated that John Salm was busy the first of the week planting pecan trees around the Courthouse lawn. The writer added that “we hope that the trees will grow,” and that the trees are not only ornamental and attractive, but they produce good fruit.