Perry County Alabama

Perry County Alabama, located in the west-central part of the state, was established in 1819 from land acquired from the Creek Indians in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson. The county is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of The United States Navy. When the area was officially opened to settlement, pioneers came from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee. The first towns in the area that would become Perry County were Muckle’s Ridge (now known as Marion), Perry Ridge, Uniontown (originally known as Woodville), and Heiberger.

The County seat is Marion Alabama.

Perry County History

Source: Alabama As It Is by Benjamin Franklin Riley, D. D., 1887

Perry county was created in 1819 and named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, of the United States Navy. Here, as throughout this portion of the great Black Belt, are all the evidences of bounty in the deep, rich soil, the increasing flow of streams, the green-clad hills and forests of towering timber. Under a perfect system of labor, these black soils of Perry county would yield astonishingly. For many years in cultivation, these fruitful lands never refuse to bring forth abundantly where the planter is diligent in sowing and reaping. The county has an area of 790 square miles.

Population in 1870, 24,975; population in 1880, 30,741. White, 7,150; colored, 23,591.

Tilled Land: 167,666 acres.—Area planted in cotton, 74,303 acres; in corn, 48,132 acres; in oats, 6,093 acres; in wheat, 440 acres; in rye, 70 acres; in rice, 27 acres; in tobacco, 24 acres; in sugar cane, 20 acres; in sweet potatoes, 1,107 acres.

Cotton Production: 21,627 bales.

The northern end of the county is of an uneven surface. The central and southern portions are level. In the northern portion there are brown loam uplands; in the southern, there is the genuine prairie soil. These are the only two characteristics attaching to the lands of the county. Both these soils possess very great inherent fertility. Upon the highest of the hill lands in north Perry there is a prevalence of sand, in which grows chiefly the yellow or long-leaf pine. Descending to the base of these hills, or rather to the uplands, we find, as was said above, a brown loam soil. Beneath this fertile surface there is a red loam subsoil, said to be twenty or twenty-five feet thick. The prairies proper, which embrace the central and southern portions of Perry, are broken here and there by sandy elevations, upon which are usually located the towns and settlements of the county. These knolls are admirably suited for the location of homes, as they place one beyond the reach of prairie mud, and at the same time furnish him with an abundant supply of excellent water. Corn and cotton are the chief crops, and their yield is oftentimes amazing.

Like many in the adjoining counties, the farmers of Perry are turning their attention to the remunerative pursuit of raising stock. Excellent stock farms can now be seen in the county, superior grasses are being cultivated, and the profits annually realized are most gratifying. These lands can not be surpassed for purposes of stock raising.

Many delicious fruits are grown in the county. Peaches, pears, figs, and grapes, together with strawberries and watermelons, are the principal fruits produced. The timbers of the county are the usual upland oaks, hickory, short and long-leaf or yellow pine.

Besides many smaller streams, there are the Cahaba river, and the Washington, Legreon, Blue Cat, Brush, Belcher’s Five Mile, Big, and Bogue Chitta Creeks in Perry. A bounteous supply of water is furnished from the numerous and copius wells which are found in every portion of the county.

Marion, the county-seat, with a population of near 3,000, Uniontown, and Hamburg are the points of interest. Marion has been long and justly famous for her institutions of learning. The Marion Military Institute is located here. Another magnificent school is the Judson Female Institute. The latter school is operated under the auspices of the Baptist denomination of the State. The Marion Seminary, another college for female education and an institution of merit, is located in this highly-favored town. The society of the place is unexcelled in the South, and the healthfulness of the location good. The Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and other denominations sustain excellent churches. Near Uniontown is one of the Agricultural Experimental stations of the State, in successful operation. Railroad facilities are enjoyed through the lines of the Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia systems.

But the most important highway of transportation will be the Mobile & Birmingham Railroad, which is now being built from Mobile to Birmingham, and other points North. This road will pierce the center both of the most productive agricultural and mineral sections of our State. The removal of the natural obstructions from the Cahaba River will also afford numerous advantages to this section.

Immigrants could now purchase lands in Perry county upon the most favorable terms, not exceeding in price $5 or $15 per acre. Like the adjacent counties, there is a prevalence of marl in different portions of Perry. The discovery of these deposits has had a tendency to increase the valuation of the lands. It is believed that these beds are sufficiently thick to encourage their development for commercial purposes. Whether this be true or not, there is no doubt that they will be of immense profit to the landsof the county. Traces of kaolin and other minerals have been discovered. The people of Perry county would extend a most cordial welcome to thrifty immigrants. In the county are 16,000 acres of public or government land awaiting occupation by settlers.

PERRY COUNTY

Source: Northern Alabama – Historical and Biographical by Smith & De Land, Birmingham, Ala 1888

Population: White 7,500; colored 22,591. Area, 790 square miles. Woodland, all. Gravelly hills, with long-leaf pine, 460 square miles. Prairie region, 325 square miles.

Acres – In cotton 75,303; in corn 48,132; in oats 6,003; in wheat 440; in rye 70; in rice 27; in tobacco 24; in sugar-cane 20: in sweet potatoes 1,107. Approximate number of bales of cotton, 22,000.

County Seat – Marion; population 2,500; located 30 miles northwest of Selma, on Cincinnati, Selma, & Mobile branch of the Western Railroad.
Newspapers published at County Seat – Standard, Normal Reporter, Howard Collegian and Judson Echoes.

Post offices in County – Augustin, Bush Creek, Chadwick, Cruess, Felix, Hamburgh, Ironville, Jericho, Le Vert, Marion, Morgan Springs, Museville, Oakmulgee, Perryville, Pine Tucky, Scott’s Station, Sprott, Talmage, Theo, Uniontown, Vilula.

Perry was created in 1819, and named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, of the United States Navy.

The county lies between parallels 32 and 33 north latitude, and embraces most of the elevated lands between the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers. Its maximum elevation is 470 feet, and its minimum 190 feet above sea level.

The face of the country is somewhat broken, though there are no great elevations. The extreme western portion of the country is drained by small streams emptying into the Tombigbee, while the country generally slopes off gently to the east, and its waters shed off into the Cahaba and its tributaries. The highest land is somewhat sandy; the chief growth is the long-leaf pine. Next comes the prairie, “a gently undulating trough-like plain lying between the drift hills on the north and similar ones on the south.”

The northern half of the county has an abundance of freestone water supplied by surface springs and wells: the prairie sections are supplied by pools and artesian wells.

The climate is as mild and salubrious as can be found in the South. Our proximity to the Gulf gives us the benefit of its refreshing breezes. The summers are long, and the days are infrequently very hot, but our nights are cool and pleasant. Sunstroke is very rare.

Mean temperature for fourteen years: spring 65.3: summer 80.6: autumn 65.5: winter 50.4.

No section on the globe can show a better health record than Perry County. The county occupies the high lands lying between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, and it is almost above the miasma line. In the river bottoms there are more or less of chills and fever in the summer and fall. There is but little pneumonia, and consumption is rare among the whites.

The State tax this year is levied on the basis of 5 ½ mills, the county on 4 mills. There is a constitutional prohibition against any county levying a tax of more than 5 mills.

County school funds for the year ending September 30, 1886, were $11,032.
Number of schools: white, 35; colored, 53; total, 88. Average number of teachers: white, 33; colored, 50; total. 83.
Average number of pupils to teacher, 42.
Average monthly pay of teachers, $30.90.
School age, seven to twenty-one years.
Average length of schools, eighty days.
Marion and Uniontown enjoy very superior public schools.

No section enjoys greater advantages than this county in the number and character of its higher educational institutions.
Located at Marion are two institutions of learning that are second to none in the South; Judson Female Institute, founded in 1839, denominational, Baptist: Marion Female Seminary, founded in 1830, non-sectarian.

The prairie comprises about one-third of the county area, or about 170,000 acres.

Sandy lands comprise the balance of the county area. There are no special features that are peculiar to these lands.
Bottom lands lie along the branches, creeks and Cahaba River, and are a superior kind of soil.

The prairie lands can be bought at from $10 to $15 per acre; the clay lands from $8 to $12 per acre; the sandy lands from $2 to $5, and the bottom lands from $8 to $12l per acre.

TABULAR STATEMENT FOR PERRY COUNTY

Corn, average number of lbs. per acre 840
Cotton, – ” 414
Rye – ” 350
Wheat – ” 400
Oats – ” 450
Barley, – ” 600
Potatoes- ” 4,500
Hay, – ” 4,000
Average number of pounds per acre, 1,444.
Total value of Perry County’s products per acre about $25.

Corn, rye, barley and oats do well in this county, and with the proper attention as much can be produced as anywhere else on the globe. Wheat usually suffers with rust. Forty years ago these lands produced, on an average, twenty bushels of wheat per acre. All grasses do well, but especially red clover, meliotus, Johnson grass. Japanese clover and Bermuda. Sorghum cane can be raised here in the greatest abundance, and if it will pay anywhere to raise it, it will pay nowhere better than here. Sugar-cane pays well on our mulatto lands. All kinds of vegetables grow here, and of most of them two crops can be made. Two crops of Irish potatoes, or Irish potatoes first and sweet potatoes next, on the same ground.

The county is doing something in stock raising, and the success that has attended the little that has been done, promises to revolutionize the present surroundings.
There are two railroads through the county; the Alabama Central and the Selma & Memphis: the Alabama Grand Trunk, leading from Mobile to Birmingham, is now under construction, and will be completed in about six months. This road will bisect the county from south to north, giving us direct communication with Mobile on the south, and Birmingham, Bessemer, Anniston, Decatur, Sheffield, etc., on the north. In addition to the above, the following roads have been chartered, and will run through the county: Chicago & Gulf Air Line: Baltimore, Birmingham & Gulf; Bessemer & Selma; Selma & Cahaba Valley, and a through trunk line to Pensacola. The Kansas City & Birmingham Railway will also be built through this county to the Gulf, Cahaba River, for all practical purposes, is past navigating.

We have the very best society in this country, and this does not mean aristocracy in any sense.

No section in the Union offers so many inducements to those who are seeking homes in the genial South than Perry County, Ala. With a climate mild and healthy, with the best of soil, and in great variety, with good prices for products and low prices for land and labor; with unsurpassed educational surroundings: with plenty of markets near at hand and good facilities to reach them; with great timber resources; with the best of society; with the greatest iron, limestone and coal beds in the world in the counties joining us on the north; with pure water, purer atmosphere, high and dry, we extend to the northern farmers a most cordial welcome to come and live amongst us, and reap the great harvest that is ready and waiting for the intelligent and progressive farmer. We say, and it is beyond the possibility of contradiction, that every acre of land in this county will yield enough in crop products to pay for itself in one year. If you have the means to buy our land and sustain yourself for one year, you need have no misgivings on this score. The land will pay for itself in one year, acre for acre, that is cultivated. It will do it now, and if more could be asked of any land it is an unreasonable demand.

Besides many smaller streams, there are the Cahaba River, and the Washington, Legreon, Blue Cat, Brush, Belcher’s, Five Mile, Big and Bogue Chitta Creeks in Perry. A bounteous supply of water is furnished from the copious wells which are found in every portion of the county.

The valuation of taxable property in Perry County, for the year 1887, is $2, 977,890, as shown by the abstract of assessment filed with the Auditor.

WATER MILLS OF PERRY COUNTY IN 1886

 

Source: Bulletin, Geological Survey of Alabama, by Truman H. Aldrich, 1886

The following is a list of the water powers that are utilized. The most of these powers are small, but they make a large aggregate, and they represent only an insignificant part of the power that is capable of development.

PERRY COUNTY H.P.
Henry C. Nichols, (Dobynes Creek). Theo, flour and grist mill. 20
Mary G. Wallace, Marlon, flour and grist mill 4
Hodger’s Mill, Newbern, flour and grist mill 15
W. F. Moore, Marion, flour and grist mill 4
Downey’s Saw Mill, Greensboro, lumber and timber 15
Stevenson’s Saw & Water Mills. Newbern, lumber and timber 20
Lucindy Washburn, (Taylor Creek), Jericho, lumber and timber 18
W. T. Downey. (Limestone Creek), Folsom, grist mill 6
James Wallace. (Legroane Creek), Jericho, grist mill 8
Dr. J. B. Tucker, (Taylors Creek), Jericho, grist mill 6
Lucindy Washburn. (Taylors Creek), Jericho, grist mill 18
S. M. Boiling, (Branch of Oakmulgee Cr.), Pinetucky. grist mill 8
C. C. Cosby, (Oakmulgee Creek), Perryville, grist mill 8
Thomas J. Fountain, (Little Creek), Oakmulgee, gin, saw and grist mill 8
Pann Patterson, (Little Creek), Oakmulgee. gin, saw and grist 8
Sarah Fountain, (Little Creek), Oakmulgee. gin, saw and grist 8
Thaddeus Smith, (Little Creek), Active, grist mill 8
W. M. Eiland, (Fords Mill Creek), Marlon, grist mill 20
J. F. Morton, (Potato Patch Creek), Levert. grist mill 6
Elijah Smith. (Beaver Creek), Bliss, grist mill 6
Noah Coker, (Beaver Dam Creek), Bethlehem, grist mill 6
W. A. Fountain. (Oakmulgee Creek), Oakmulgee, rice mill 10

 

Perry County Alabama Cities:

Marion Alabama

Located in West Central Alabama, Marion was established in 1817. Marion is the county seat of Perry County. Marion is adjacent to the Talladega National Forest and The Cahaba River lying beautifully along the scenic yet country highway views of Highways 5, 14, and 45. Marion’s population records at 3600 (United States Census, 2010). Marion was first called Muckle Ridge, and then was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” hero of the American Revolution. History abounds in Marion: Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married to a local girl in 1840.  Coretta Scott King was born in Perry County and attended the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. The Southern and Northern Baptists split in 1845 in Marion with the adoption of the “Alabama Revolution,” by the Baptist State Convention.

Uniontown Alabama

Uniontown is situated in the southwestern part of Perry County, Alabama,
and lies in the western section of the area known as the Canebrake, a
portion of the Black Belt Prairie traditionally recognized as one of the
richest farming areas in Alabama.

Perry County Alabama Communities:

Adler Alabama

Adler is an unincorporated community in Perry County. A post office operated under the name Adler from 1887 to 1905. Adler lies entirely within the Oakmulgee District of the Talladega National Forest.

Augustin Alabama

Augustin is an unincorporated community in Perry County.

Cleveland Mills Alabama

Coleman Alabama

Cunningham Alabama

Ellards Alabama

Folsom Alabama

Folsom, also spelled Folsolm, is an unincorporated community in Perry County. Folsom was originally named Cleveland Beat and was a voting precinct during Grover Cleveland’s first presidency. The name was then changed to Folsom in honor of Cleveland’s wife, Frances Folsom. A post office operated under the name Folsom from 1887 to 1904.

Hamburg Alabama

Heiberger Alabama

Heiberger, Alabama is a small settlement located about 10 miles north of Marion Alabama. It is best known for being the birthplace of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.

Hillcrest Alabama

Jericho Alabama

Levert Alabama

Morgan Springs Alabama

Nave Alabama

Norman Alabama

Oakmulgee Alabama

Osborn Alabama

Panhandle Alabama

Perryville Alabama

Radford Alabama

Sprott Alabama

Suttle Alabama

Taylor Alabama

Taylor is a town in Geneva and Houston counties. Taylor was first settled in the 1870s, named after an early family that helped secure the first post office. It was not incorporated until almost a century later in June 1967. At the 2010 census the population was 2,375,[4] up from 1,898 in 2000.

Vaiden Alabama

Vilula Alabama

Zimmerman Alabama

Perry County Alabama Parks

Perry Lake Park

A natural river bottomland and one of Alabama’s most beautiful areas. This 600-acre park offers excellent outdoor recreation in an undeveloped river bottom. Perry Lakes Park is a featured birding site on the Alabama Birding Trails. This park is located in Perry County approximately 7 miles northeast of Marion (GPS Coordinates 32.694584, -87.243529).

Perry County Alabama Communities & Places

 

COMMUNITY / PLACE NAME	LOCATION
Adler	32.763056, -87.168333
Antioch (historical)	32.540278, -87.476944
Ash Grove Plantation (historical)	32.501389, -87.404167
Athahatchee (historical)	32.676389, -87.247222
Augustin	32.506111, -87.107778
Bethlehem	32.806944, -87.109722
Blackburn (historical)	32.722222, -87.343056
Bliss (historical)	32.736111, -87.041667
Bolling Mill (historical)	32.758333, -87.089167
Bordens Mill (historical)	Unknown
Browns Store and Mill (historical)	32.548056, -87.450000
Brush Creek	32.791111, -87.463611
Buck Snort Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Bull Mountain	32.776944, -87.082222
Bushy Oak (historical)	32.366667, -87.468611
Cahaba Old Town (historical)	32.713889, -87.256944
Canebrake Agricultural Experimental Station (historical)	32.464167, -87.504167
Carmacks Ferry (historical)	Unknown
Cedar Lawn Plantation (historical)	32.458611, -87.508611
Chadwick (historical)	32.709444, -87.080556
Chestnut Hill (historical)	32.593056, -87.050000
Church Square	32.632778, -87.315278
Cleveland Mills	32.704167, -87.198889
Cleveland Store (historical)	32.634722, -87.430556
Coleman	32.600556, -87.478056
Cruess Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Curbville	32.706944, -87.371944
DeYampert Plantation (historical)	32.537500, -87.440278
Ebenezer (historical)	32.833889, -87.171389
Edith Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Ellards	32.814722, -87.260833
Ellawhite	32.438056, -87.499167
Fairhope Plantation (historical)	32.445278, -87.490833
Fall Line Hills	32.666667, -86.666667
Flatwood (historical)	32.440278, -87.453333
Folsom	32.682500, -87.405833
Freetown	32.388056, -87.511111
Gayles Store (historical)	32.568889, -87.388056
Griffin Springs	32.802778, -87.036667
Grove Cottage Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Hamburg	32.527778, -87.286389
Harris Store (historical)	32.816667, -87.112500
Heiberger	32.758056, -87.286667
Henton (historical)	32.482778, -87.431111
Hillcrest	32.451389, -87.474722
Independence Bridge	32.500556, -87.100833
Indian Hill Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Ironville	32.800556, -87.342778
Jericho	32.773889, -87.275278
Levert	32.759167, -87.241389
Long Bridge	32.591111, -87.053333
Marion	32.632222, -87.319167
Medline (historical)	32.715556, -87.028333
Midway Plantation (historical)	32.570833, -87.429167
Morgan Springs	32.745278, -87.415833
Mount Carmel (historical)	32.706111, -87.458889
Museville Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Nave	32.485833, -87.266944
New Hope (historical)	32.414722, -87.475000
Norman	32.556667, -87.298056
North Perry	32.784722, -87.405556
Oak Grove (historical)	32.534722, -87.120556
Oak Lawn Plantation (historical)	32.420000, -87.514722
Oakmulgee	32.796389, -87.043889
Oasis Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Osborn	32.683611, -87.143056
Panhandle	32.686111, -87.025833
Perry County Airport (historical)	32.558333, -87.309722
Perryville	32.616667, -87.114167
Pinetucky	32.759722, -87.084167
Pisgah (historical)	32.649167, -87.107222
Pollard Store (historical)	32.503333, -87.498611
Porters Crossroads	32.568056, -87.443056
Providence (historical)	32.495833, -87.386111
Rabbityard	32.454167, -87.520833
Radford	32.589167, -87.200000
Rogers Store (historical)	32.778611, -87.119167
Rural Hill Plantation (historical)	32.413056, -87.473889
Scott Station	32.608333, -87.439167
Scotts Prairie	32.605278, -87.438889
Severe Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Sprott	32.676667, -87.221389
Sugar Hill Plantation (historical)	32.355556, -87.500278
Sugarville	32.531944, -87.440278
Sunnyside Plantation (historical)	32.537500, -87.479167
Suttle	32.536111, -87.179722
Talmage Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Tayloe	32.448056, -87.438056
Taylor Station (historical)	32.440278, -87.438611
The Cedars (historical)	32.439444, -87.513333
Theo	32.722222, -87.188889
Uniontown	32.449444, -87.514167
Uniontown Municipal Airport (historical)	32.431389, -87.499167
Vaiden	32.519722, -87.371111
Vilula	32.549722, -87.270556
Walkers Prairie	32.543333, -87.438333
Walkers Quarter (historical)	32.351389, -87.450000
Walter C Givhan Bridge	32.774444, -87.273889
Walthalls Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Wares Grove (historical)	32.450556, -87.473611
Waterfall Post Office (historical)	Unknown
Waters Store (historical)	32.598333, -87.201667
Weaver Plantation (historical)	32.462500, -87.515278
Welcome (historical)	32.701389, -86.045000
Westwood Plantation (historical)	32.459722, -87.514444
Willard Grove (historical)	32.533333, -87.386667
Woodlawn (historical)	32.500556, -87.406667
Wooleys Mill (historical)	33.301944, -87.248611
Zimmerman	32.615556, -87.382500

Things To Do in Perry County Alabama

Alabama Military Hall of Honor Museum

Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame

Auburn Rural Studio’s Antioch Baptist Church

Historic Downtown Marion

Coretta Scott King Memorial

Fin & Feather Farm

Harry the Slave’s Gravesite

Holmestead Farms

Judson College

Lincoln Normal School

Marion Female Seminary Building

Marion Military Institute

Moore-Webb-Homes Plantation

Old Marion Railway Depot

Perry Lakes Park

Smith Building Art Gallery

The Green Street District

 

Perry County Alabama Historic Destinations

Lincoln School – Marion Alabama

Coretta Scott King Memorial – Marion Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial Center – Marion Alabama

Marion Female Seminary – Marion Alabama

Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation – Marion Alabama

Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame – Marion Alabama

Reverie Historic Home – Marion Alabama

Alabama Military Hall of Honor – Marion Alabama

 

Perry County Alabama Schools

 

SCHOOL NAME	LOCATION
Antioch School (historical)	32.541111, -87.475278
Barnett School (historical)	32.760278, -87.180556
Bell School (historical)	Unknown
Bethany School (historical)	32.584167, -87.205000
Bethlehem School (historical)	32.806111, -87.109444
Blackbelt School (historical)	Unknown
Bliss School (historical)	32.738333, -87.042222
Bolling School (historical)	Unknown
Brush Creek School (historical)	Unknown
Caffee School (historical)	32.753611, -87.115833
Center School (historical)	32.547222, -87.184722
Crawford School (historical)	32.747222, -87.418056
Crenshaw School (historical)	Unknown
Curbville School (historical)	32.701389, -87.343889
Daniel School (historical)	Unknown
Eagles Grove School (historical)	32.555000, -87.322778
East Perry High School	32.576111, -87.193611
Ellard School (historical)	32.813889, -87.262500
Ellawhite Elementary School (historical)	32.442500, -87.495278
Francis Marion High School	32.631389, -87.335000
Freetown School (historical)	32.390833, -87.509722
Friendship School (historical)	Unknown
Green Liberty School (historical)	32.513611, -87.286667
Hamburg Academy (historical)	32.548611, -87.269444
Hanna School (historical)	Unknown
Hatch High School	32.445278, -87.515556
Heiberger Elementary School	32.782778, -87.277500
Hinton School	32.485000, -87.431389
Hopewell School (historical)	32.633889, -87.387222
Jericho School (historical)	Unknown
Judson College	32.630000, -87.315000
Judson College	32.630556, -87.315556
King School (historical)	Unknown
Levert School (historical)	32.760556, -87.240833
Lewis School (historical)	32.452778, -87.514722
Lilly Grove School (historical)	32.523889, -87.218333
Lincoln Normal School (historical)	32.625556, -87.330000
Little Canaan School (historical)	32.320278, -87.489444
Marietta Number 2 School (historical)	Unknown
Marietta School (historical)	32.715000, -87.280000
Marion Academy	32.606667, -87.335000
Marion Baptist Academy	32.636944, -87.330833
Marion Elementary School	32.634444, -87.321944
Marion Female Seminary (historical)	32.634444, -87.321111
Marion Institute	32.623611, -87.322222
Marion Public School (historical)	32.626111, -87.318889
Melton School (historical)	32.536667, -87.090278
Morning Star School (historical)	32.671111, -87.396944
Mount Ararat School (historical)	32.580000, -87.308889
Mount Gilead School (historical)	32.755556, -87.127778
Mount Olive School (historical)	Unknown
Mount Pilgrim School (historical)	Unknown
New Home School (historical)	Unknown
North Perry School (historical)	32.788333, -87.407778
Oak Grove Number 26 School (historical)	Unknown
Oak Grove Number 29 School (historical)	Unknown
Oak Grove Number 34 School (historical)	Unknown
Oak Grove School	32.691389, -87.131667
Oak Grove School (historical)	32.533333, -87.122500
Oak Grove School (historical)	32.641667, -87.472500
Old Cross School (historical)	32.583056, -87.495000
Perry County High School (historical)	32.634722, -87.323611
Perry County Training School (historical)	32.444722, -87.516389
Perry Ridge School (historical)	Unknown
Perry School	32.610556, -87.316944
Perryville School (historical)	32.614444, -87.120833
Pine Chapel School (historical)	Unknown
Pine Flat School (historical)	Unknown
Pisgah School (historical)	32.648611, -87.116667
Pleasant Grove School (historical)	Unknown
Pleasant Hill School (historical)	Unknown
Popes Beat School (historical)	32.354444, -87.468056
Poplar Grove School (historical)	Unknown
Porters Crossroads School (historical)	32.568611, -87.442500
Prairie School (historical)	Unknown
Provewell School	32.680556, -87.217500
Radford School (historical)	Unknown
Reynolds Chapel School (historical)	32.619167, -87.485000
Shady Grove School (historical)	Unknown
Springhill School (historical)	Unknown
Stone School (historical)	Unknown
Suttle School	32.553056, -87.190000
Taylor-Moore School (historical)	Unknown
Temple School (historical)	32.451111, -87.512778
Union Academy (historical)	Unknown
Uniontown District Academy (historical)	32.446389, -87.516389
Uniontown Elementary School	32.445000, -87.515833
Uniontown Female Academy (historical)	32.448056, -87.513056
Uniontown Male Academy (historical)	32.451944, -87.514167
Uniontown Middle School	32.456667, -87.511944
Vaiden School (historical)	32.503889, -87.487222
Vilula School (historical)	32.548611, -87.269722
Wallace School (historical)	Unknown
Walnut Grove School (historical)	Unknown
Warren Academy (historical)	32.724444, -87.188889
Welcome School (historical)	32.702778, -87.044444
West High School	32.666111, -87.386389
West Perry School (historical)	32.661944, -87.425278
White Hill School	32.406111, -87.455833
Willow Grove School (historical)	32.532778, -87.393611
Woodland School (historical)	32.502222, -87.407500

Perry County Alabama Churches

CHURCH NAME	LOCATION
Aimwell Baptist Church	32.315556, -87.457500
Antioch Baptist Church	32.822500, -87.458889
Antioch Church (historical)	32.406111, -87.451389
Antioch Methodist Church	32.540556, -87.479444
Asbury Methodist Church (historical)	32.406667, -87.456111
Bethany Church	32.764722, -87.443611
Bethany Church	32.584722, -87.204722
Bethel Church	32.590556, -87.340556
Bethesda Presbyterian Church (historical)	32.754444, -87.308056
Bethlehem Baptist Church	32.803333, -87.310833
Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church	32.820278, -87.114722
Calvary Church	32.733889, -87.356944
Canaan Baptist Church	32.321111, -87.498611
Church of Christ	32.633889, -87.315556
Church of Christ	32.582778, -87.486389
Church of God	32.621667, -87.317500
Cleveland Mills Church	32.705833, -87.198333
Coffee Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church (historical)	32.433889, -87.515278
Coles Chapel	32.573611, -87.343333
Concord Baptist Church	32.625556, -87.160556
Craig Chapel Methodist Church (historical)	32.548333, -87.390278
Crossroad Church	32.639444, -87.017778
Eagle Grove Church	32.555833, -87.322500
Ephesus Baptist Church	32.730833, -87.198056
Fairview Presbyterian Church (historical)	32.656111, -87.428611
Faith Chapel	32.568611, -87.290833
Faith Chapel Baptist Church	32.785833, -87.412500
Fellowship Baptist Church	32.691667, -87.448889
Fellowship Church (historical)	32.754722, -87.436111
First Baptist Church	32.628611, -87.318889
First Baptist Church	32.448056, -87.511389
First Methodist Church	32.634444, -87.318333
First Presbyterian Church	32.631111, -87.318889
First Presbyterian Church	32.451667, -87.514167
First United Methodist Church of Uniontown	32.452778, -87.514722
Foot Washing Baptist Church (historical)	32.446667, -87.516944
Friendship Baptist Church	32.803889, -87.026389
Friendship Baptist Church	32.378333, -87.470278
Friendship Church	32.643889, -87.288611
Friendship Church (historical)	32.590278, -87.339167
Green Liberty Church	32.513333, -87.286667
Greenleaf Church	32.590278, -87.440556
Harmony Church (historical)	32.705556, -87.467500
Healing Springs Church	32.529444, -87.363056
Hebron Baptist Church	32.337222, -87.508611
Heiberger Methodist Church	32.774722, -87.276667
Hepzibah Baptist Church (historical)	32.745000, -87.087500
Hickory Grove Church	32.555556, -87.390556
Holy Cross Episcopal Church	32.451389, -87.516667
Hopewell Church	32.641111, -87.404722
Hopewell Church	32.643333, -87.404444
Hopewell Presbyterian Church (historical)	32.448611, -87.512222
Iveys Chapel	32.698333, -87.176944
Lake Payne Church	32.828889, -87.447222
Lillie Grove Church	32.522778, -87.218056
Little Rock Church	32.792500, -87.275833
Living Hope Baptist Church	32.384444, -87.444167
Marietta Church	32.715000, -87.277778
Marion Methodist Church	32.635278, -87.320278
Mars Hill Baptist Church (historical)	32.605833, -87.262778
Mary Etta Church	32.577500, -87.110833
Medline Baptist Church	32.716944, -87.029167
Missionary Church	32.544444, -87.267500
Morgan Tabernacle	32.817222, -87.465278
Morning Star Baptist Church	32.670556, -87.396944
Morris Hill Church (historical)	32.595833, -87.274167
Mount Ararat Church	32.581389, -87.309722
Mount Calvary Church	32.390278, -87.509444
Mount Carmel Church	32.689722, -87.457778
Mount Gilead Church	32.755556, -87.126111
Mount Ivah Church	32.841944, -87.369167
Mount Mariah Baptist Church	32.555556, -87.460278
Mount Nebo Church	32.793611, -87.368611
Mount Nebo Methodist Church	32.677778, -87.309444
Mount Olive Baptist Church	32.767778, -87.165556
Mount Olive Church	32.596111, -87.249444
Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church	32.790000, -87.054722
Mount Pilgrim Church	32.714167, -87.124722
Mount Pisgah Church	32.714722, -87.125556
Mount Pleasant Freewill Baptist Church	32.749167, -87.188056
Mount Tabor Church	32.744722, -87.365556
Mount Zion Church	32.736111, -87.359444
Nebo Methodist Church	32.640833, -87.322778
New Hope Church	32.611111, -87.188611
New Hope Church	32.414167, -87.474444
New Hope Methodist Church	32.732222, -87.172500
North Perry Church	32.828333, -87.430556
Oak Grove Church	32.811667, -87.425000
Oak Grove Church	32.691667, -87.138611
Oak Grove Church	32.675000, -87.129722
Oak Grove Church	32.534167, -87.123333
Oak Grove Church	32.495833, -87.497778
Oak Grove Church	32.641667, -87.472222
Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church	32.489167, -87.500000
Ocmulgee Baptist Church	32.530833, -87.103333
Payne Chapel Methodist Church (historical)	32.782778, -87.226389
Perryville Baptist Church	32.606667, -87.124722
Pine Flat Church	32.572222, -87.166111
Pine Grove Baptist Church	32.813611, -87.268056
Pineview Church	32.695000, -87.422778
Pisgah Baptist Church	32.650000, -87.108889
Pleasant Grove Church	32.750556, -87.225556
Poplar Grove Church	32.698889, -87.080278
Provewell Church	32.680278, -87.217222
Providence Methodist Church	32.765278, -87.432500
Quinn African Methodist Episcopal Chapel	32.449167, -87.517222
Reynolds Chapel AME Church	32.619167, -87.484722
Saint James Church	32.668333, -87.254722
Saint Marys Baptist Church	32.468611, -87.426111
Saint Pauls Methodist Church (historical)	Unknown
Saint Wilfrids Episcopal Church	32.635556, -87.318611
Salem Church	32.833611, -87.382500
Sanctified Church	32.455000, -87.520833
Santa Felix Church	32.544444, -87.182500
Sardis Baptist Church	32.801111, -87.343889
Second Baptist Church	32.438333, -87.497778
Shady Grove Church	32.358333, -87.431667
Shiloh Baptist Church (historical)	32.608333, -87.056667
Siloam Baptist Church	32.631111, -87.319722
Simpson Chapel	32.632222, -87.268611
Springhill Church	32.707500, -87.373056
Star Bethel Church	32.448056, -87.437500
Stephens Memorial Baptist Church	32.526667, -87.446944
Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel	32.632778, -87.320278
Union Chapel (historical)	32.719444, -87.307500
Union Church	32.720833, -87.332778
Uniontown Baptist Church	32.448889, -87.513333
Uniontown Church of God	32.442778, -87.494444
Waycross Bible Methodist Church	32.830278, -87.438333
Willow Grove Church (historical)	32.533333, -87.386111
Woodlawn Church	32.501111, -87.407222
Zion United Methodist Church	32.632500, -87.317778

Perry County Alabama Ghost Towns

Coleman Alabama

Hamburg Alabama

Ironville Alabama

Jericho Alabama

Nave Alabama

Norman Alabama

Oakmulgee Alabama

Scott Station Alabama

Scotts Prairie Alabama

32.607070146267624, -87.43880414278529

Zimmerman Alabama

 

Perry County Alabama Cemeteries

CEMETERY NAME	LOCATION
Asbury Cemetery	32.406389, -87.455833
Barnett Cemetery	32.779444, -87.103056
Barron-Wells Cemetery	32.645278, -87.202500
Bethany Cemetery	32.581111, -87.204722
Bethesda Cemetery	32.754444, -87.308611
Bethlehem Number 1 Cemetery	32.820000, -87.115833
Bethlehem Number 2 Cemetery	32.808056, -87.109444
Calvary Cemetery	32.734444, -87.356667
Campbellite Cemetery	32.730000, -87.281667
Conwill Cemetery	32.805556, -87.025833
Curry Cemetery	32.653611, -87.468333
Daniel Cemetery	32.700278, -87.223056
DeYampert Cemetery	32.637500, -87.447222
Dobyne-Haggard Cemetery	32.731944, -87.181667
Edwards Cemetery	32.615556, -87.189722
Ellawhite Cemetery	32.441111, -87.498611
Elvins Cemetery	32.663056, -87.431667
Fairview Cemetery	32.656111, -87.429722
Faith Chapel Cemetery	32.786389, -87.412222
Farrer Cemetery	32.683889, -87.142500
Fellowship Cemetery	32.754444, -87.438333
Friendship Cemetery	32.378333, -87.436944
Friendship Cemetery	32.590278, -87.338611
Fuller Cemetery	32.630556, -87.105000
Goldman Cemetery	32.447778, -87.504167
Greenlawn Gardens	32.421389, -87.517222
Griffin Cemetery	32.805556, -87.030833
Griffin Cemetery	32.719444, -87.465278
Harper Cemetery	32.690278, -87.464167
Harris Cemetery	32.807500, -87.109167
Hatch Cemetery	32.594722, -87.520833
Heard Cemetery	32.657778, -87.273056
Heiberger Cemetery	32.774167, -87.277500
Hepzibah Cemetery	32.744722, -87.087500
Holy Cross Cemetery	32.451389, -87.516944
Hopewell Cemetery	32.642500, -87.405556
Ivey Cemetery	32.695833, -87.180000
Iveys Chapel Cemetery	32.699167, -87.178056
Legal Cemetery	32.778333, -87.116667
Lily Plummer Cemetery	Unknown
Living Hope Cemetery	32.384444, -87.444722
Marion Cemetery	32.633333, -87.314444
Mars Hill Cemetery	32.605833, -87.263611
Medline Cemetery	32.718333, -87.029444
Midway Cemetery	32.569722, -87.427222
Morrissette Cemetery	32.527500, -87.522222
Mount Calvary Cemetery	32.395278, -87.510556
Mount Gilead Cemetery	32.756111, -87.125278
Mount Nebo Cemetery	32.666389, -87.310556
Mount Olive Cemetery	32.790556, -87.055278
Osburn Cemetery	32.676944, -87.141667
Paynes Cemetery	32.780556, -87.224444
Pickens Cemetery	32.468056, -87.481667
Pinecrest Memorial Cemetery	32.603333, -87.306389
Pisgah Cemetery	32.650556, -87.108889
Providence Cemetery	32.764167, -87.432222
Rosemount Cemetery	32.455556, -87.515278
Saint Wilfrids Cemetery	32.636111, -87.318889
Scarborough Cemetery	32.661944, -87.288889
Shiloh Cemetery	32.607778, -87.056667
Smith Cemetery	32.785278, -87.033333
Stewart Cemetery	32.763333, -87.196389
Suttle Cemetery	32.603889, -87.155556
Swann Cemetery	32.698611, -87.171667
Tadlock Cemetery	Unknown
Turner Cemetery	32.686667, -87.410000
Turpin Cemetery	32.626944, -87.498611
Walthill Cemetery	32.650000, -87.497778
Waters Cemetery	32.623611, -87.168333
Waycross Cemetery	32.830000, -87.438333
White Cemetery	32.666111, -87.161111
Williams Cemetery	32.678056, -87.116111
Winfield Cemetery	32.437778, -87.518611
Wooley Cemetery	32.827778, -87.263056

Perry County Alabama Rivers, Lakes & Streams

NAME	LOCATION
Barnett Branch	32.735833, -87.175000
Bear Creek	32.286111, -87.295556
Beaverdam Creek	32.741944, -87.111667
Big Prairie Creek	32.578611, -87.756944
Bingham Creek	32.512222, -87.185000
Blue Girth Creek	32.817222, -87.241944
Bogue Chitto Creek	32.166667, -87.233056
Boiling Mill Creek	32.750833, -87.084167
Bone Lake	32.619722, -87.394167
Bonnet Creek	32.756111, -87.178889
Brush Creek	32.742500, -87.522222
Brush Creek	32.415000, -87.371111
Buck Creek	32.667778, -87.029167
Cahaba River	32.319167, -87.094722
Camp Branch	32.723611, -87.185833
Cave Mountain Branch	32.873333, -87.280833
Chaney Creek	32.338333, -87.293333
Chilatchee Creek	32.142778, -87.252222
Coffee Creek	32.437500, -87.417500
Cottonwood Creek	32.525000, -87.653889
Cottrell Lake	32.499722, -87.514444
County Line Branch	32.486111, -87.206667
Dry Creek	32.594444, -87.203333
Dry Creek	32.536944, -87.590833
Dry Creek	32.455556, -87.181944
Duncan Branch	32.469444, -87.377500
Dutch Creek	32.786944, -87.046667
Emily Foster Lake	32.668333, -87.355000
Fivemile Branch	32.659722, -87.082222
Floyd Cook Lake	32.608333, -87.308333
Freetown Creek	32.302222, -87.471389
Frith Branch	32.751389, -87.083611
Fullers Branch	32.728056, -87.110556
Greer Creek	32.484167, -87.621667
Hilton Mckee Lake	32.528333, -87.487500
Holley Creek	32.547222, -87.162222
Holsombech Creek	32.794167, -87.035278
James A Wheeler Lake	32.595000, -87.458333
Joe Dozier Lake	32.606944, -87.398611
Lake Ada	32.610833, -87.376389
Lake Beth	32.589444, -87.383056
Lake Betty	32.599722, -87.371667
Lake Doris	32.584167, -87.383056
Lake Eva	32.604167, -87.367222
Lake Heart	32.600833, -87.367500
Lake Hugh	32.581667, -87.368611
Lake Ines	32.604167, -87.372222
Lake Lou	32.598611, -87.368611
Lake Mary	32.595833, -87.365556
Lake Miriam	32.594722, -87.370278
Lake Nett	32.579167, -87.381667
Lake Rhoda	32.578056, -87.374444
Lake Sam	32.581111, -87.373333
Lake Vida	32.580556, -87.369444
Lake Will	32.610278, -87.365278
Lakeland Farms Lake Number Eight	32.606667, -87.380000
Lakeland Farms Lake Number Seven	32.603333, -87.381667
Lakeland Farms Lake Number Six	32.600556, -87.382222
Lakeland Farms Pond Number Fifteen	32.601667, -87.266667
Lakeland Farms Pond Number Fourteen	32.605000, -87.360000
Lakeland Farms Pond Number Nineteen	32.600000, -87.250000
Lakeland Farms Pond Number Sixteen	32.605000, -87.265000
Little Brush Creek	32.742778, -87.522222
Little Chilatchee Creek	32.236389, -87.388889
Little Creek	32.705278, -87.196667
Little Oakmulgee Creek	32.570000, -87.081111
Little Pryor Creek	32.659722, -87.082222
MacMillian Bloedell Lake	32.660000, -87.498333
Marguerite S Howell Lake	32.578333, -87.463333
Marion Fish Hatchery Number One	32.690000, -87.253333
Marion Fish Hatchery Number Two P	32.710000, -87.261667
Middle Lake	32.695833, -87.240000
Mill Creek	32.741944, -87.168333
Mill Creek	32.672500, -87.240556
Miller Brothers Lake Number One	32.326944, -87.471667
Miller Brothers Lake Number Three	32.324444, -87.469444
Miller Brothers Lake Number Two	32.328611, -87.471667
Mitchell Creek	32.534444, -87.087500
Mud Creek	32.373056, -87.320278
Oakmulgee Creek	32.471667, -87.158611
Old Town Creek	32.717222, -87.259444
Osborn Creek	32.702222, -87.097500
Perry Lake	32.694167, -87.241944
Pickett Branch	32.790833, -87.040556
Polecat Creek	32.751111, -87.554722
Possum Creek	32.482778, -87.160556
Potato Patch Creek	32.750833, -87.258333
Rice Creek	32.553889, -87.237778
Rogers Creek	32.243056, -87.414444
Round Lake	32.697500, -87.241111
Sand Creek	32.547222, -87.162222
Sand Creek	32.607500, -87.348889
Sand Creek	32.269167, -87.445556
Silver Creek	32.515278, -87.184722
Smiths Branch	32.434444, -87.452778
Sparks Creek	32.751389, -87.553889
Stone Branch	32.725556, -87.180833
Tate Branch	32.513889, -87.096389
Tayloe Branch	32.436111, -87.423056
Tayloe Creek	32.430278, -87.398889
Taylor Creek	32.804444, -87.245833
Vaughans Lake	32.504722, -87.176111
W A Hughes Lake	32.586667, -87.368333
Wallace Creek	32.741389, -87.264722
Washington Creek	32.478611, -87.329722
Waters Creek	32.595556, -87.218611
Watershed Structure Number Eleven	32.621667, -87.508333
Watershed Structure Number Twelve	32.631944, -87.484167
Wells Creek	32.619722, -87.234444
White Branch	32.741944, -87.168333
Wilbourne Lake	32.648056, -87.342500
Williams Branch	32.810833, -87.260556
Williams Creek	32.775556, -87.052222

 

Important Perry County Alabama Addresses

 

Perry County Circuit Clerk P. O. Box 505 Marion, Alabama 36756 Phone: (334) 683-6106Perry County Probate Office P. O. Box 478 Marion, Alabama 36756 Phone: (334) 683-2210Perry County Genealogical Society P. O. Box 310 Uniontown, Alabama 36786Perry County Historical Society P. O. Box 257 Marion, Alabama 36756 Phone: (334) 683-6411Marion Public Library 202 Washington Street Marion, Alabama 36756 Phone: (334) 683-6411 http://marionperrycountylibrary.webs.com/

Alabama Department of Archives & History P.O. Box 300100 624 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36130 Phone: 334-242-4435 http://www.archives.alabama.govAlabama Genealogical Society P.O. Box 3921 Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 http://algensoc.orgAlabama Historical Commission 468 South Perry Street Montgomery, Alabama 36104 Phone: 334-242-3184 http://www.preserveala.orgAlabama Department of Public Health Mailing Address: P.O. Box 303017 Montgomery, AL 36130 Phone: (334) 206-5418 Physical Address: The RSA Tower 201 Monroe Street Montgomery, AL 36104 http://adph.org/default.aspAfrican-American Genealogical Society of Alabama P. O. Box 217 Faunsdale, Alabama 36738 Phone: (334) 627-3772

 

Perry County Alabama Zip Codes:

36793

36701

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