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Mount Hope, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Lawrence. Associated ZIP codes: 35651.
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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...
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Mount Hope is in Lawrence 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...
Mount Hope, in Lawrence County, first appears in Alexander Sommerville's mortgage of August 21, 1830, which describes his store, cotton gin and land a quarter mile west of the present town. By 1833 Mount Hope appears in court records as both a town and an election precinct, and it was incorporated on February 17, 1854, with limits a quarter mile in every direction from the crossroads; Pleasant W. McVay, Robert Cleer, James Streeter, Robert J. Warren and James G. Stephenson were authorized to hold its first election.
Stephenson Academy, active by 1865, was one of its first schools, and the Wallace Institute stood a mile and a half south near Rock Springs. On April 27, 1863, Union Colonel Abel Streight camped at Mount Hope with 1,500 men on his way to cut the railroad at Rome, Georgia, and during the raid $1,300 was stolen from the Wallace estate funds. Early businesses included Wilson Martin's grocery of 1854 and McVay's store of 1866. Mount Hope natives include Dr. R. M. Cunningham, Alabama's first lieutenant governor, from 1903 to 1907, and acting governor in 1904 and 1905, and Mary Harris Cagle, a noted preacher and a founder of the Church of the Nazarene. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Mount Hope Community (Lawrence County Historical Commission)
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