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Evidence of the Sublett/Sublette family's impact on American history can be seen in location names throughout the country:
Sublett Ferry was established by Abraham Sublett, son of cousins Abraham Sublett and Celia Sublett of Virginia. Sublett Ferry crossed the Tennesse River, at what is now the end of County Road 558, which branches off of County Road 33 south of the Bellefonte power plant, southeast of Hollywood on U.S. Highway 72 in Jackson County. Since the Tennessee River was dammed into a lake, the site of the original Sublett Ferry crossing is now under water. The location is designated as Tennessee River Mile (TRM) 389.4.
The Sublett Ferry type of Indian arrowhead was named by archaeologist James W. Cambron in 1964 for examples that he found at sites near Sublett Ferry on the Tennessee River in Jackson County, Alabama (also classified as a Class 29 projectile point).
Sublett Gap is a gap near Georgetown, on the east side of the Tennessee river, across from Hollywood and Sublett Ferry.
Sublett Gap Hollow is a stream valley emptying into Guntersville Lake on the east side of the Tennessee River, near the south end of Goodwin Point Road, south of Langston.
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The former home of William (Billy) Sublett (brother of Sublett Ferry operator Abraham Sublett) and his family is located at 11226 Alabama Highway 79, in Long Hollow, west of Scottsboro, southeast of Larkinsville, north of U.S. Highway 72. It is just south and across the street from Scottsboro Holiness Church, northeast of Keasling Drive (County Road 23). [View map]
The farm house (later owned by Billy Robinson, Mrs. Charles Leslie, and today the Lindsay family) was also known as the Old Stage Coach Station. Graves of passengers who died on the stage are located around the old house, as well as the grave of William (Billy) Sublett.
Billy Sublett's grave is covered by flat stone slabs, under an old magnolia tree. Billy Sublett, son of cousins Abraham Sublett and Celia Sublett of Virginia, married Mary Scott Sublett, another cousin of both his parents. One of their sons, Andrew Monroe Sublett, married Polly Ann Moon and lived in Moontown in neighboring Madison County.
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Located in eastern Madison County, Alabama, between Huntsville and Gurley southwest of U.S. Highway 72, the Moontown area is home to several Sublett locations:
The Sublett Cemetery is located in Moontown, west of the Flint River and south of Highway 72 past the Moontown Airport. At the south end of Moontown Road, turn left on Bob Hunt Road, then turn right on a private driveway south across a field. The Sublett Cemetery is in a rectangular grove of trees, surrounded by a fence, on the left side of the private driveway. Among the graves are those of Andrew Monroe Sublett and his wife, Polly Ann Moon.
Sublett Bluff is a cliff southeast of Sublett Cemetery, on the north side of Sublett Point, overlooking the Flint River.
Sublett Point is small mountain peak south of Highway 72, about two miles west of Gurley Mountain. The new McMullen Cove subdivision features a Sublett Point Park located on Sublett Point, along with a Sublett Point Trail.
Sublett Mill is southeast of Sublett Point, along the east shore of the Flint River, north of Little Cove Road, two miles west of Gurley, Alabama.