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Linden, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Marengo. Associated ZIP codes: 36748.
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A newly-filed Alabama Power contract offers the public a rare glimpse at how Alabama Power proposes to serve a controversial data center in Jefferson County...
The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts confirmed Monday they are in the middle of auditing the Jefferson County Probate Judge’s Office.
CAW serves customers in Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Blount and Waker counties. Four water treatment facilities are operated and they maintain more than 4,1...
Gigi Hayes, an attorney, and LaTanya Millhouse, a family court judicial assistant, are running to represent Alabama House District 52.
Heavy rain hammered central Alabama Saturday afternoon, leaving trees down and cars stranded across Jefferson County.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed that 19-year-old Jakoya Morgan died. The autopsy had not yet been completed when WBRC spoke with the coroner.
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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...
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Linden is in Marengo 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...
Linden, the seat of Marengo County, takes its name from a Napoleonic victory. The territorial legislature created Marengo County in 1818, and the Town of Marengo was surveyed near the county's center to serve as its seat. French immigrants of the nearby Vine and Olive Colony renamed it Hohenlinden, after Napoleon's victory over Austria and Bavaria at Hohenlinden in 1800, a change Wikipedia dates to 1823 and the town's marker to 1824, when lots were sold. Everyday use shortened it to Linden. The town also had a nickname, Screamersville, which the marker credits to its rowdy court sessions and Wikipedia to the cries of wild animals at night.
A two-story log courthouse built in 1827 was surrounded by lodging houses, stores and churches. In the 1840s Linden had 160 residents, and after the log courthouse burned in 1848 a brick Federal-style courthouse replaced it. Stagecoaches passed through on the road from Mobile to Huntsville, The Linden Jeffersonian began publishing in 1853, and The Democrat Reporter has served the area since 1879. Linden was incorporated on March 1, 1870, and in 1890 townspeople watched a gunfight in front of the courthouse between Deputy Sheriff Jeff "Dixie" Carter and the notorious train robber Rube Burrows. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was completed nine-tenths of a mile south of the old town in 1902, and a "new town" grew up by the depot. A Gothic courthouse with a chiming clock tower, built in 1903, burned and was replaced in 1968 on the same site, at the heart of today's downtown. Sources The Historical Marker Database: History of Linden, Alabama (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Linden) Wikipedia: Linden, Alabama
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