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Article: United States : Ardmore: The railroad connection between two states.
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- October 30, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
The community of Ardmore incorporates the two states of Tennessee and Alabama, and the four counties of Giles County, Tenn., Lincoln County, Tenn., Madison, Ala., and the northeast corner of Limestone County, Ala. The community was originally called Austin after Alex Austin, a merchant from Elkton, Tenn., who built the first general store in 1910, in anticipation of the L&N Railroad s expected path from Nashville to Decatur.
Charlotte Fulton chronicled much of Ardmore s early history in her 2003 Etched in Limestone: Living and Learning in Old Limestone County.
And so the merchant from Elkton, Tenn., bought 200 acres of Land at ...