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Thorsby, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Chilton. Associated ZIP codes: 35171.
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Thorsby is in Chilton County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
35171
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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...
Thorsby was founded in 1895 as Chilton County's first planned community, a Scandinavian colony in the South. Its founders, three Swedes, Theodore T. Thorson, John F. Peterson and John E. Hedberg, and a Norwegian, K. G. Faegre, were immigrants who had first settled in the Midwest and were looking for a milder climate, fertile soil and better health. They formed the Concordia Land and Improvement Association, laid out the town with parks and ten-acre lots that each included a small vineyard, and advertised in northern newspapers the discovery of a southern "utopia." Excursion trains brought newcomers, most of them Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Danes.
The name likely combines Thorson with the Scandinavian suffix "by," meaning town, though it may come from Torsby in Sweden. Within a few years Thorsby had two hotels, a sawmill and two wineries, and its farms grew grapes, strawberries and the peaches for which Chilton County is famous. Locals called it the little "Swede Town." It was incorporated in 1901 and was one of three Scandinavian colonies founded in Alabama around the turn of the century. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Thorsby: A Scandinavian Colony in the South (Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Thorsby) Wikipedia: Thorsby, Alabama
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