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Headland, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Henry. Associated ZIP codes: 36345.
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Headland is in Henry 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...
Headland began as "Head's Land." James Joshua Head (1839–1927) founded the town in 1871, patenting the land, laying out the town and building his home, and the post office opened as Headland on October 10, 1871. Head laid out a public square that year, hoping for a branch courthouse, but county voters rejected the square in courthouse elections in 1879 and 1885; Henry County is the only county in Alabama to have had three courthouses at once.
Head sold the town to Hosey C. Powell in 1879, and Powell sold it in 1880 to Dr. Wyatt S. Oates, who was instrumental in its development; in 1908 the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the town, not Oates, owned the square. Head moved to Tampa in 1883 and later founded Lake Magdalene, Florida. Headland was incorporated in 1884 on a petition signed by 26 white and four Black residents, and the railroad and depot were built in 1893. The Spirit of the American Doughboy statue, the first public statue in Henry County, was put up on the square in 1926 to honor the town's war dead, and the square was paved in 1935. Headland became Henry County's largest city, a position it has held since 1980. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Headland, Alabama / Headland Public Square (Historic Chattahoochee Commission and others) Wikipedia: Headland, Alabama
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