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Foley, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Baldwin. Associated ZIP codes: 36535, 36536.
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Foley is in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Region: South Alabama
36535, 36536
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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...
Foley is named for its founder, Chicago businessman John B. Foley. According to a local history, he first heard about southern Baldwin County from a railroad agent while traveling to President William McKinley's funeral in 1901. Foley bought tens of thousands of acres here, in 1901 according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama or 1902 by other accounts, and formed the Magnolia Springs Land Company, known today as the Magnolia Land Company, to sell it to settlers.
The new town needed a railroad, so Foley persuaded the Louisville and Nashville to run a line south from Bay Minette by agreeing to pay for the crossties himself. The first station was built in 1905, the same year the town got its post office, and a wood-burning engine nicknamed the "Pine Knot Special" carried passengers and freight. When the station burned in 1908, a new depot went up the next year; it now houses the city's museum, archives and a model train exhibit. Foley also donated land for a school, a park and several churches, including Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church. Foley was incorporated in 1915, with G. I. Weatherly as its first mayor. For decades it was mainly a farming town, shipping potatoes and other crops from its L&N depot and warehouse. Its downtown, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Foley Downtown Historic District, includes the Holmes Medical Museum, housed in what was Baldwin County's first hospital. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Foley Alabama Pioneers: Foley, Alabama Wikipedia: Foley, Alabama
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