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Alabama real estate bubble of the 1810s
The Alabama real estate bubble of the 1810s was a real estate bubble centered on Huntsville, caused by increasing cotton prices resulting from demand from English textile manufacturers, relatively high cotton yields in Alabama, as well as general speculation. In 1817, property in Madison County sold for around $2 per acre, while in 1818 it sold for $7.40 per acre on average, with some tracts reportedly sold “at prices ranging from $20 to $78 per acre,”〔Chappell, Gordon T. 1949. "Some Patterns of Land Speculation in the Old Southwest." The Journal of Southern History: 463-477〕 at a time when land on the American frontier was sold for $2 per acre.〔"(Chapter 35: Act of March 26, 1804 )". Statutes at Large, Volume II. 8th Congress, 1st session. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845, pg. 277-283. From Library of Congress, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875; (accessed April 24, 2013).〕 By 1819, acreage prices plummeted to around $0.20 per acre due to the Panic of 1819 and increasing global supply of cotton.〔Glaeser, Edward L., (A Nation of Gamblers: Real Estate Speculation and American History ) (working paper); accessed April 24, 2013.〕
== Background ==
Following the collapse of the Continental System and the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, demand for English textiles increased in Continental Europe. As a result, English cotton imports surged 78% from 1815 to 1818,〔 giving cotton speculators confidence that English industrialization, combined with a peaceful Europe, had created a permanent boost in cotton demand. With this sharp uptick in demand, cotton prices climbed from $0.20 per pound in 1815 to $0.30 per pound in most markets by 1817 and 1818.〔Cole, Arthur H. 1938. (Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1700-1861 ), Statistical Supplement, Actual Wholesale Prices of Various Commodities. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, (accessed April 24, 2013).〕
The increase in cotton prices caused a rush to increase production, and attention soon focused on Alabama. Alabama was particularly conducive to growing cotton; at this time the exhausted soil in South Carolina was able to produce around 300 pounds of cotton per acre per year, while the most productive areas of Alabama Black Belt could yield between 800 and 1000 pounds.〔Howe, Daniel Walker. 2007. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (The Oxford History of the United States, Vol. 5). Oxford University Press.〕 Furthermore, the area around Huntsville, Alabama, although not in the Black Belt, had easy access to the Tennessee River, which reduced transportation costs to New Orleans, where cotton could be sold and exported.〔
Finally, in order to encourage settlement of the western United States, the Land Act of 1804 permitted the federal government to auction land with standard 25% down payments and 6% interest, “and speculators mingled with homesteaders in the rush to buy.”〔 Purchasers could easily obtain credit from the Second Bank of the United States, notorious for its loose lending practices in its South and West branches, while other regional banks followed suit.
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