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Clayton, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Barbour. Associated ZIP codes: 36016.
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Clayton is in Barbour County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Clayton, the seat of Barbour County, sits at the geographic center of the county, at the headwaters of the Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers on the old road from Hobdy's Bridge to Eufaula. A few settlers lived in the area by 1818, and settlement began in earnest around 1823. Named for Augustin S. Clayton, a Georgia judge and congressman, the town became the county seat in 1833, according to the town's marker, and was laid out around a central courthouse square; the first circuit court met here on September 23, 1833. The post office opened in September 1835, and on December 21, 1841, the legislature incorporated Clayton, then home to 200 people, with John Jackson as its first mayor.
Clayton has four properties on the National Register of Historic Places, among them the birthplace of Henry DeLamar Clayton Jr., author of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914; the Miller-Martin Townhouse of 1859, with hand-painted ceiling murals of the four seasons; and the Octagon House, built from 1859 to 1861 by merchant Benjamin Franklin Petty, the only antebellum octagon house in Alabama. The town is also known for its Whiskey Bottle Tombstone, featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Governor George Wallace, born in nearby Clio, began his legal and political career in Clayton, and in March 1956 he attended the first public meeting of the Barbour County White Citizens' Council at the town's football stadium, a segregationist rally of an estimated 4,500 people. Sources The Historical Marker Database: History of Clayton, Alabama / Clayton's Architectural Heritage (Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Clayton) Wikipedia: Clayton, Alabama
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