Carbon Hill, AL news and local guide

On February 1, 1891, the Walker County sheriff asked the governor for fifty soldiers. Striking miners, hearing that the Carbon Hill Coal and Coke Company planned to fire 200 of them and fearing Black workers would take their jobs, had turned on Black residents, and Mayor Anderson wired that a lawless mob was shooting Black people and driving them from their homes. Two weeks later, on February 14, 1891, Carbon Hill was incorporated with Anderson as mayor; its founders, choosing Valentine's Day, wanted it known as the Village of Love and Luck, after the Scottish tradition of coal as a lucky gift. On May 27, 1917, an F3 tornado killed six people and destroyed 200 homes. The town was hard hit by the Depression and used Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration funds to build a new high school and improve its sewers, sidewalks and streets. Sources Wikipedia: Carbon Hill, Alabama