Crabapple
Named after the crabapple orchard owned by Mr. John B. Broadwell and located at the original site of Northwestern School (presently owned by the Crabapple Baptist Church). The crabapple orchard was open to any person in the community, and picnics were often held there while the local farmers were shopping. Because the community had gathered there for years, Mr. Broadwell gave the property to the county to build the Northwestern School.
Of all the communities, Crabapple might have had the most cotton. Each of the other communities had a cotton gin, but Crabapple had two at one point in its history. The last cotton gin is the Raven’s Nest Store. Mr. Broadwell was famous for creating a strain of cotton that made more bolls of cotton per stalk than most cotton plants. The money from cotton, before the start of the twentieth century, allowed the local store owners to build their stores in brick. The two brick stores in Crabapple now were created from this money.
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