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Docena, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Jefferson. Associated ZIP codes: 35060.
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Docena is in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Region: North 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...
Docena, a former mining village in the Warrior coal field in western Jefferson County, was first developed in 1905 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church as the campus for a planned college. Called Booker City, for educator Booker T. Washington, it caught the attention of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company because it gave good access to the Pratt coal seam. The company traded the church a site near what would become Fairfield, where the college was built and is now Miles College.
TCI opened its Number 12 Pratt Mine here and built a stockade for convicts leased from the state, who were brought in by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, which also hauled their coal to coke ovens for the Ensley Works. In 1912, under company president George Gordon Crawford, TCI gave up convict leasing and began planning a model mining village with modern sanitation, orderly houses, schools, churches and recreation, hoping to attract settled workers. At the suggestion of railroad engineer Ed F. Stallingworth, the village was given a Spanish theme and named Docena, Spanish for "twelfth," for the No. 12 mine. Its central park was called the Prado and its commissary the Mercado, and John Rigney laid out its grid of long blocks. Sources Wikipedia: Docena, Alabama
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