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Whatley, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Clarke. Associated ZIP codes: 36482.
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Whatley is in Clarke 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...
Whatley, once home to the Creek and Choctaw, was first settled by pioneers about 1808, and some of Clarke County's best-known early events happened nearby. During the Creek War, settlers built Fort Sinquefield near here for protection, and the fort was the site of a battle. The Old Line Road nearby follows the surveyed Indian boundary line that once separated Creek and Choctaw lands. Horeb Baptist Church, founded on September 9, 1825, was one of the area's earliest churches, and the community was first called Horeb in its honor.
When the Mobile and Birmingham Railroad came through in 1886 and 1887, Franklin Benjamin Whatley (1826–1896), grandson of early Baptist minister Willis Whatley, deeded land for the depot, and the railroad named the station for him. The post office changed its name from Horeb to Whatley on August 20, 1890. By 1888 Whatley had two stores, a doctor's office, two sawmills, a cotton gin and a hotel, run by Nancy Whatley and later her daughter, and it grew as a shipping point for lumber and the trading center for a prosperous farming area. Whatley was incorporated in 1901 and counted 187 people in the 1910 census. On August 1, 1919, during the racial violence of the Red Summer, three people were wounded in a gun battle here. Clarke County historian the Reverend T. H. Ball is buried in Whatley, and the Whatley Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Whatley, Alabama (Alabama Tourism Department and the Community of Whatley) Wikipedia: Whatley, Alabama
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