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Vernon, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Lamar. Associated ZIP codes: 35592.
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Vernon is in Lamar 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...
Vernon is the seat of Lamar County and was also the seat of the county's two predecessors: Jones County, which existed briefly in 1867, and Sanford County, from 1868 until it was renamed Lamar in 1877. The town was first called Swayne Courthouse, for General Wager Swayne, head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama. Many records were lost when the courthouse burned in 1866, and in 1868 the town was renamed Vernon after Edmund Vernon. It was incorporated in 1870.
Just south of town stood the Hale and Murdock Furnace, the only ironworks in Alabama to escape Union attack in the Civil War. Harrison Hale and Abraham Murdock, merchants from Columbus, Mississippi, built it in 1859, along with the nearby Wilson's Creek Forge of 1857, and Joseph Weston replaced it with a new furnace in 1862 that employed 150 men, many of them enslaved. Using local brown iron ore and charcoal, it made pig iron, hollowware, plow points and war materials. Lying off the Union line of march, it kept running until January 1870, when it closed for lack of transportation. Vernon's economy rested on timber, farming and milling, and textile plants came in the early 20th century. In 1928 the county built a two-room school for Black students with Ruby C. Todd as teacher; the Lamar County Training School graduated its first class of eight in 1938, became Todd High School in 1962 and operated until integration in 1969. Sources Wikipedia: Vernon, Alabama The Historical Marker Database: Hale & Murdock Iron Furnaces (Lamar County Genealogical and Historical Society and the Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission) The Historical Marker Database: Lamar County Training School
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