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Gantt, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Covington. Associated ZIP codes: 36038.
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Gantt is in Covington 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...
Gantt, in northern Covington County, was briefly called Christine, supposedly after a schoolteacher, before it took the name of the head of a prominent local family.
The railroad and the river shaped the town. When the Central of Georgia Railroad came through in 1899, the town moved about a mile from its original site to be near the line. That same year the first dam was built across the Conecuh River so a local timber yard could float logs to market. In 1920 a hydroelectric plant was added to the dam, and Gantt had electricity before other towns in the county. Gantt Lake, a 2,700-acre reservoir on the Conecuh River created by the Gantt Dam, dates to the 1920s by one account, while another places the first dam in 1899; the sources do not reconcile the two. Gantt was incorporated as a town in August 1970. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Gantt Wikipedia: Gantt, Alabama
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