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Silverhill, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Baldwin. Associated ZIP codes: 36576.
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Silverhill is in Baldwin 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...
Silverhill is a Swedish colony town. A community called Silverhill existed here before the Civil War, by 1861 at the latest; some sources say the name came from the silver coins a boss paid to turpentine workers. The turpentine business in the area dated to 1860, when Robert Baker and Stephen Potts bought 12,000 acres of Baldwin County pine land that later took in Silverhill.
The modern town was founded in 1897 by Oscar Johnson, an immigrant from Dalarna, Sweden, along with C. O. Carlson and C. A. Valentin of Chicago. Through their Chicago-based Svea Land Company, they bought a first block of 1,500 acres from a Mr. Harford and advertised it to recent Swedish immigrants, adding more land as the colony grew. Scandinavian settlers came from across the country. A post office opened in 1899 and operated until 1926, and the People's Supply Company general store, opened in 1902, was the center of town life until the 1980s. Silverhill was incorporated on August 13, 1926. Johnson remained a lifelong resident, and the Svea Land Company's old building is now the Oscar Johnson Public Library, which also houses a museum of the town's history. Sources Encyclopedia of Alabama: Silverhill Wikipedia: Silverhill, Alabama (citing Vignettes of Baldwin County and the National Register nomination for the People's Supply Company) The Historical Marker Database: Summerdale / Summerdale's Turpentine Still
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