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Sipsey, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Walker. Associated ZIP codes: 35584.
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Activist charged with setting fire to embattled Mississippi police department
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Nov 4, 2026Open source
Alabama oyster season opens amid decline in oyster numbers
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
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Sipsey is in Walker County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
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Activist charged with setting fire to embattled Mississippi police department
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-...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Alabama oyster season opens amid decline in oyster numbers
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
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Sipsey, in Walker County, was founded in 1912 as a company town for coal miners. The town's marker credits Milton H. and Rose Fies and the Maryland Coal and Coke Company, later the DeBardeleben Coal Company, while Wikipedia names coal magnates Henry T. DeBardeleben, Milton Fies and Nicholas M. Norris as the company's founders. It was built as a showplace mining village, with a large commissary, a school, a church and 200 houses of logs sawed on the property, and at its peak it had as many as 900 residents.
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The first load of coal was shipped on August 13, 1913, when miners worked 10-hour days for $1.50 to $3 a day, and house rent was $6. A clinic opened in 1913 and a company dairy in 1917. A new two-story school built in 1915 held three classrooms below and the Masonic lodge above, and it was the first school in the county with a nine-month term; soon after, a school for African American children was built, the largest of its kind in the county. Baptists and Methodists shared the Union Church on alternate Sundays, and the building is still in use. Sipsey was incorporated as a town on August 14, 1965. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Town of Sipsey (Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Sipsey) Wikipedia: Sipsey, Alabama
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33.8247220, -87.0861110
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