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Hartselle, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Morgan. Associated ZIP codes: 35640.
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Hartselle is in Morgan 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...
Hartselle, in Morgan County, is named for George Hartsell, spelled without the final "e," one of the owners of the South and North Alabama Railroad, later the L&N. The town owes its existence to the railroad, built through the area from 1869 to link Alabama's mineral district with northern shipping points; sources date the founding to 1869 or 1870. At first it was a general store and saloon for workers a mile north of the depot's present site. The town moved in 1873 and grew around its first depot, a converted boxcar, and the post office opened that year. Hartselle was incorporated on March 1, 1875, with J. Fletcher Turney as first mayor.
The railroad opened the area to farming and timber, and Hartselle became an important shipping point. Cotton was the main cash crop from 1870 to 1960, and the town was a center for fruit, berries and timber in north Alabama. A fire in 1916 destroyed most of its oldest buildings, and the Great Depression took a heavy toll. Early on March 15, 1926, a gang of five to ten men tied up a night policeman and a bank cashier, captured the depot agent, cut the phone lines and spent about three hours blasting into the Bank of Hartselle's vault, escaping with about $15,000 in cash, coins and gold bars in one of the boldest robberies in Alabama history. Sources The Historical Marker Database: City of Hartselle, Alabama / Hartselle Facts (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Hartselle) The Historical Marker Database: The Great Hartselle Bank Robbery (Alabama Tourism Department) Wikipedia: Hartselle, Alabama
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