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Excel, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Monroe. Associated ZIP codes: 36439.
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Excel is in Monroe 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...
Excel takes its name from its farmland. The first settlers arrived around 1875 and set up homesteads, mostly raising sheep and cattle. By 1894 a post office had been established and named Excel for the area's "excellent agricultural" land, and a one-room school was built about the same time, replaced by a two-room school in 1896. A lumber mill on nearby Bear Creek made lumber an important part of the local economy.
Around 1900 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad finished a line from Repton to Pine Apple, and the Menistee and Repton Railroad built a spur through Excel to connect with it. The town built a depot and grew with general merchandise, drug and hardware stores and later a garage. Its first bank opened in 1918, and by 1920 Excel had the first accredited high school and vocational school in Monroe County. The town expanded through land purchases in 1924 and 1927, and a new post office was built in 1926. The rail line closed in 1935, and by 1937 Excel's growth had slowed in the face of competition from Monroeville and Frisco City. Excel was incorporated as a town in February 1948. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Excel Wikipedia: Excel, Alabama
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