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Kinston, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Coffee. Associated ZIP codes: 36453.
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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-...
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Kinston 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...
Kinston has had more names than most towns. People began farming the area in the 1830s, and in 1878 a town was established as Cross Trails, where the Samson–Opp and Elba–Florala roads crossed. A sawmill and turpentine still opened in 1899, and around 1900 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built its Alabama–Florida branch through town, setting off a boom. The town was then renamed Boone, for the maiden name of landowner Pink Hickman's wife, and later Pink, for Hickman himself, who donated land for the depot.
Because "Pink" was too easily confused with nearby Pinckard, a Mr. Pride, who bought property here in 1910, proposed the name of his hometown in North Carolina, and on September 27, 1912, the town officially became Kinston. The Farmers and Merchants Bank opened in 1914, and by 1920, the year Kinston incorporated, it had a theater, a kiln, a planing mill and two cotton gins. A downtown fire in 1928 destroyed many businesses, and when the bank closed during the Depression most of them could not rebuild. A garment factory employing 200 opened in 1953, and Monsanto opened a plant in 1966. On March 10, 2009, a gunman began a rampage in Kinston that killed ten people here and in Samson and Geneva. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Kinston Wikipedia: Kinston, Alabama
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