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Luverne, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Crenshaw. Associated ZIP codes: 36049.
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Luverne is in Crenshaw 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...
Luverne, the seat of Crenshaw County, was built by a railroad. On July 2, 1880, the Montgomery and Southern Railway was chartered to link Montgomery with the Florida coast, and after two reorganizations its line reached this spot near the Patsaliga River in November 1888, where the builders decided to stop. The new terminus drew settlers, and Luverne was incorporated in 1891. The land was too poor for large cotton plantations, so the town became a timber center in the piney woods of southern Alabama.
Crenshaw County had been created in 1866 from parts of five counties, with its first seat at Rutledge. After the railroad bypassed Rutledge, county voters chose Luverne as the seat in 1893. The first courthouse here burned on March 4, 1897; a second was finished in 1898 and replaced in 1955 by the present building. The county is named for Judge Anderson Crenshaw, appointed to Alabama's first Supreme Court. On June 22, 1940, a Black man named Jesse Thornton was lynched in Luverne for failing to address a white police officer as "Mister"; his body was found in the Patsaliga River. The Luverne Historic District, reflecting the town's growth as a railway hub from the 1880s to the late 1940s, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 2005. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Crenshaw County Courthouse; Luverne Historic District (Alabama Historical Commission) Wikipedia: Luverne, Alabama
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