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The City of Adam stood "beside Zarethan" (Joshua 3:16) on the west bank of Jordan (I Kings 4:12). At this city, the flow of the water was arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the Israelites' passing over (Joshua 3:16).
Adam was also the name given to the first man formed. That is the Adam mentioned in Genesis. Prehaps there is relevance in the fact that this is where the waters dried up in order for the tribe of Israel to cross the Jordon before Jericho.
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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...
The town was considered officially founded in 1873, when John Adams made generous concessions to the railroad in return for the railroad laying their tracks through town.
Local legend says that part of John Adams' land concession included the stipulation that liquor be forever prohibited from the town.
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