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Mentone, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: De Kalb. Associated ZIP codes: 35984.
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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-...
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Mentone is in De Kalb 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...
Mentone, atop Lookout Mountain in DeKalb County, was first settled shortly after the Cherokee removal of 1838 and 1839 by pioneers who had arrived too late for good farmland in northwest Georgia. Families including the Forces, O'Rears, Crows, Joneses, Smiths and Hammits cut their way into the wilderness, built log houses, cleared patches to farm and hunted for food. During the Civil War Union troops on the mountain took settlers' animals and food.
After the war more prosperous settlers came, among them the Mason family of Bellefountain, Iowa. John Mason and his son Edward founded Mentone; John helped open the Vernon Gap and the road from Valley Head to Menlo, Georgia, in 1882, the Masons bought hardware for a covered bridge the community built, and Edward gave money for a church and a school. The town was named for Menton in France and incorporated in 1935. In April 2003 Mentone was the town nearest the epicenter of a magnitude 4.6 earthquake, felt across several states, which caused only minor damage. Many private summer camps operate on the mountain nearby. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Town Of Mentone (Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Mentone) Wikipedia: Mentone, Alabama
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