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Thomasville, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Clarke. Associated ZIP codes: 36784.
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Thomasville is in Clarke 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...
Thomasville is a railroad town. In the summer of 1887 the Mobile and West Alabama Railroad confirmed that its line would follow the Choctaw Corner route, and building soon began on the swampy headwaters of Bassett Creek. Merchants at the old antebellum settlement of Choctaw Corner, just to the west, moved their stores to be near the tracks, and the line between Mobile and Selma was finished in 1888. The new town, first called Choctaw, was founded that year and incorporated on November 24, 1888. It was named for General Samuel Russell Thomas, a railroad financier and former Union general who, according to Wikipedia, donated $500 for the town's first school; a city marker describes him as president of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company.
Thomasville grew quickly as a shipping point for lumber, timber and hundreds of bales of cotton a year, but in the summer of 1889 an epidemic remembered as the "Thomasville Fever" nearly emptied the town. In 1899 fire destroyed the entire business section, including 23 wooden buildings, a hotel and 700 bales of cotton, and the town required that the new downtown be built in brick; much of it still stands. In the 1950s the railroad stopped using the depot, but Thomasville gained an Air Defense Command radar station, where the prototype of the FPS-35 radar was developed. Roses planted along U.S. Highway 43 in those years earned it the nickname "City of Roses," and paper mills opening in the 1960s and 1970s remain important to the economy. The Thomasville Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Thomasville's Early History (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Thomasville) Wikipedia: Thomasville, Alabama
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