Baileyton
Baileyton’s roots go back to the Reconstruction days when some dirt farmers from Georgia and Tennessee, including Robert Bailey who was later to lend his name to the settlement, veered off the beaten path and homesteaded the virgin wilderness some five miles south of the Marshall County line and five miles east of Morgan County. On April 16, 1870, Robert Bailey bought forty acres of land for $1.50 per acre from the L&N Railroad.
Over the next two decades, axes wielded by Robert Bailey, Franklin Guthrie, Tom McClarty, Lynn Pope, Matt Blackman, John Walker, Gilbert C. Cordell, Matt Heaton, W. A. Albritton, W. H. Martin, Bob Worthy and others converted the forests into crude log cabins and rough frame houses. Cleared land on which cotton, corn, potatoes, oats, tobacco, peas, cattle and sheep were raised surrounded this land.
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