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Roanoke, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Randolph. Associated ZIP codes: 36274.
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Alabama oyster season opens amid decline in oyster numbers
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Roanoke is in Randolph County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
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Roanoke, in Randolph County, was Creek land until treaties and forced removal under the Indian Removal Act of 1830; the area was then developed into cotton plantations worked by enslaved African Americans. The settlement was called High Pine in the 1830s, after a nearby creek, and was reportedly burned during an Indian uprising in 1836. It was renamed Chulafinee in 1840 and later Roanoke, after Roanoke, Virginia, the hometown of an early settler, and was incorporated in December 1890.
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In Roanoke, artist and inventor Ella Gantt Smith made the famous Roanoke Dolls by hand, with heads molded of plaster of Paris covered in tight cotton fabric and faces painted so that no two were alike. When she died on April 2, 1932, she held eleven patents; her husband, S. S. Smith, built her factory. The Randolph County Training School, a public school for African Americans, was chartered on September 15, 1919, and opened in 1920 with 73 students, built with money from Black parents, the white community and the Rosenwald Fund. It closed under a federal desegregation order in 1970. Sources Wikipedia: Roanoke, Alabama The Historical Marker Database: Roanoke Doll Factory (Randolph County Historical Society) The Historical Marker Database: Randolph County Training School (Alabama Historical Association)
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33.1564430, -85.3578540
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