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Andalusia, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Covington. Associated ZIP codes: 36420, 36421.
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Andalusia is in Covington County, Alabama.
Region: South Alabama
36420, 36421
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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...
Andalusia, the seat of Covington County, replaced a flood-prone river town. When the county was created in 1821, its first seat, Covington Court House, stood on the banks of the Conecuh River below the falls; by 1824 it was called Montezuma, after the Aztec ruler. A fire destroyed its log courthouse in 1839, and after repeated flooding, including a flood in 1841, a new site on Devereux Hill was chosen for the county seat in 1844. The Encyclopedia of Alabama dates the legislative act to January 16, 1844, while a state marker says the site was chosen that July. First called New Site, it was known as Andalusia by 1846, a name that probably reflected the importance of Spanish-ruled Pensacola as the region's trading center.
The Three Notch Road, a military road from Pensacola to Fort Mitchell cleared by U.S. soldiers in the summer of 1824 along a route marked with three notches on trees, runs through town. Courthouses burned in 1865, 1878 and 1895, destroying many county records, and the present stone and marble courthouse replaced an 1897 brick one in 1916. Andalusia was incorporated as a town in 1884. The railroad arrived on September 20, 1899, when the first Central of Georgia work train stopped within 50 yards of the courthouse, and a Louisville and Nashville line followed; within a year the population doubled from about 250 to about 500, and timber and wood products drove the town's trade. On December 15, 1944, a young Hank Williams, whose band was playing at the Riverside Inn at nearby River Falls, married Audrey Sheppard in a garage in downtown Andalusia. Rail service ended on March 31, 1983, and the old depot became the home of the Covington Historical Society's Three Notch Museum in 1987. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Andalusia becomes the County Seat / Andalusia Railroad Depot (Alabama Historical Association) The Historical Marker Database: Three Notch Road / Hank and Audrey Williams (Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel) Encyclopedia of Alabama: Andalusia Wikipedia: Andalusia, Alabama
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