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Ozark, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Dale. Associated ZIP codes: 36360, 36361.
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Ozark is in Dale County, Alabama.
Region: South Alabama
36360, 36361
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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...
Ozark, the seat of Dale County, was Muscogee country before Dale County was created in 1824. Farmers gradually bought and settled the former Indian lands, and the first known European settler was John Merrick Sr., a Revolutionary War veteran, who arrived in 1822; the settlement was called Merricks and later Woodshop. In 1855 Elijah T. Matthews bought a country store on the hill at the north end of Union Street, became postmaster and chose the name Ozark. The city's marker says he named it for the Ozark Indians of Arkansas and Missouri, while another story holds that a traveler was reminded of the Ozark Mountains.
After the courthouse at Newton burned in 1869, the county seat moved to Ozark in 1870, and the legislature incorporated the city on October 27, 1870. In the mid-1930s Ozark leaders, including Congressman Henry B. Steagall and Jesse Adams, editor of The Southern Star, helped the federal government acquire 35,000 acres in southwestern Dale County. In 1941, with war approaching, they persuaded the War Department to make that land the core of a 64,000-acre infantry training post, which became Camp Rucker and later Fort Rucker, home of Army aviation. Ozark has four sites on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Claybank Log Church, the old train depot and the Samuel Lawson Dowling House. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Early Ozark / Ozark's Role in the Origin of Fort Rucker (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Ozark) Wikipedia: Ozark, Alabama
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