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Wadley, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Randolph. Associated ZIP codes: 36276.
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Wadley is in Randolph 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...
Wadley, on the west bank of the Tallapoosa River in Randolph County, was born around 1901 with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad and named for George Dole Wadley, its vice president and general manager of construction. It was designed as a model city by the Callaway Development Company of LaGrange, Georgia, headed by Fuller E. Callaway, with a main street of businesses and a central park bordered by Christian, Baptist and Methodist churches. Its first store belonged to Minus H. Radney, the first mayor, and it was incorporated on September 15, 1908, with 333 people. Its depot, which cost more than $12,000, was called "one of the handsomest along the line" in 1908.
A mile north, on the east bank of the river, stood Louina, settled in 1834 and named for a Native woman who ran a trading post. It became Randolph County's main business center, with the county's first newspaper, schools, churches, a Masonic lodge and mills, and a Confederate company was organized there on August 1, 1861. Its last store closed in 1902. Wadley's First Bank was one of few banks that stayed open through the Great Depression. Clegg Manufacturing arrived in 1946, and Bethlehem College, supported by the Congregational Christian Church, became the state-owned Southern Union State Community College on October 1, 1964. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Town of Wadley (Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Wadley) The Historical Marker Database: Louina (Randolph County Historical Society) Wikipedia: Wadley, Alabama
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