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Abbeville, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Henry. Associated ZIP codes: 36310.
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Abbeville is in Henry County, Alabama.
Region: South 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...
Abbeville, the seat of Henry County, calls itself the oldest remaining colonial settlement in east Alabama, older than both the county and the state. An active trading post stood on "the Hill" here early in 1819, in the Alabama Territory. The town is named for nearby Abbie Creek, from a Creek name said to mean a grove of dogwood trees. Henry County, created on December 13, 1819, was the "mother county" of the Wiregrass, and its seat moved from Columbia to Abbeville in 1833, the same year the town got its post office. Abbeville was incorporated in 1853.
On May 20, 1906, an arsonist set a fire that destroyed most of the business district on Kirkland Street; a bucket brigade saved the courthouse by pouring water on its flat roof, and the town was rebuilt in brick. In July 1916 Robert Newman and Mike Sachar, a Russian Jewish immigrant, built the Henry County Peanut Oil Mill here, the first in Alabama; renamed the Pioneer Peanut Oil Mill in 1918, it was destroyed by fire in 1921. In February 1937 Wes Johnson, an 18-year-old Black man accused of attacking a white woman, was taken from the county jail by a mob and lynched; no one was charged, and he is among the victims remembered at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Abbeville / Seven Flags and an Arrow Over Abbeville (Historic Chattahoochee Commission and Henry County Historical Society) The Historical Marker Database: Alabama's First Peanut Oil Mill (Alabama Historical Association) The Historical Marker Database: Richmond – First County Seat Henry County Wikipedia: Abbeville, Alabama
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