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Summerdale, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Baldwin. Associated ZIP codes: 36580.
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Summerdale 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...
Summerdale was settled in the early 1850s by several families of Scottish and Irish descent, according to a city historical marker. In 1860 Robert Baker and Stephen Potts bought 12,000 acres of Baldwin County pine land that would become Magnolia Springs, Silverhill, Robertsdale, Summerdale and Marlow, and started a turpentine business. During the Civil War, workers dug deep trenches to hide the rosin from the still in case Union troops set fire to the woods; the rosin was never found and was dug up and sold several years after the war. The site lay near the Old Dixie Road, now County Road 32.
By 1900 the community had a church, a sawmill, a turpentine business and a hotel. It was named in 1904 for Eli Summer, who came to start a tobacco farm; his farm failed, but the name stuck. The first train arrived on May 11, 1905, letting farmers ship crops long distances, and a post office, a second hotel, a canning factory and a general store soon followed. Farmers raised cotton, potatoes, peanuts and tobacco, and a three-story tobacco barn built around 1909 to store cigar leaf still stands. A group of Mennonites settled here in 1917 but did not stay. By 1928 Summerdale was known as the "Sunshine Town of Baldwin County," and it was incorporated in January 1929. Many of its original farms are still in production. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Summerdale / Summerdale's Turpentine Still (erected 2018 by the City of Summerdale and others) Encyclopedia of Alabama: Summerdale
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