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Pell City, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Saint Clair. Associated ZIP codes: 35125, 35128.
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Pell City is in Saint Clair County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
35125, 35128
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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...
Pell City, one of the two seats of St. Clair County, was founded by railroad investors and named for George Hamilton Pell, a New York industrialist and president of the East and West Railroad. Sources differ on its start: the city's marker says its charter was granted in 1887, while Wikipedia says it was founded in 1890 and incorporated on May 6, 1891. The town nearly failed in the Panic of 1893, and by 1901 it was almost deserted.
That year a young man named Sumter Cogswell passed through, saw its potential and set out to rebuild it. In 1902 he secured a cotton mill, the Pell City Manufacturing Company, later Avondale Mills, which became the town's economic and social center; a mill village was built and the town grew by about 1,500 people. Growing population south of Backbone Mountain led to Pell City becoming a second county seat, which the markers date to 1902 and Wikipedia ties to a 1907 constitutional amendment. In 1956 the nearby towns of Eden and Oak Ridge were merged into the city. In the 1960s Alabama Power dammed the Coosa to create Lake Logan Martin, and Interstate 20 was built between Birmingham and Atlanta, bringing a new boom. The old Avondale mill was being dismantled when it burned on February 14, 2008. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Pell City, Alabama (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Pell City) The Historical Marker Database: A County Older Than The State, St. Clair (Alabama Historical Association) Wikipedia: Pell City, Alabama
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