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Elba, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Coffee. Associated ZIP codes: 36323.
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Elba is in Coffee 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...
Elba, the seat of Coffee County, owes its name to a hat. The town began near a ferry across the Pea River, in the early 1830s according to Wikipedia or about 1840 according to the city's marker, and was first called Bridgeville; a post office was open by 1841. In 1850 it was renamed Bentonville. At a town meeting in December 1851, everyone present put a suggested name into a top hat; a Mr. Simmons, who had been reading a biography of Napoleon, wrote "Elba" for the emperor's island of exile, and his name was drawn. In 1852 the legislature recognized the name and Elba won a countywide election for county seat, and in May 1853 it voted to incorporate.
The Pea River, called the Talakatchee by the Creeks, has shaped and repeatedly flooded the town. The "Lincoln flood" of 1865 destroyed it first. On March 15, 1929, the river crested at 43.5 feet, and airplanes dropped supplies to the completely flooded town; a levee was built in 1930, though floods returned in later decades. A logging railroad reached Elba on March 20, 1892, a permanent line in October 1898, and the last rail service ended on November 27, 1984. Elba was home to James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, twice governor of Alabama, whose boyhood farmhouse was moved into town in 2002 and is on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. Sources The Historical Marker Database: City of Elba (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Elba) The Historical Marker Database: Folsom Birthplace (Daughters of the American Revolution) Wikipedia: Elba, Alabama
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