Jefferson, Alabama

Jefferson is an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.[1] It is the birthplace of sculptor Geneva Mercer.[2]

Jefferson, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Jefferson is located in Alabama
Jefferson
Jefferson
Location within the state of Alabama
Jefferson is located in the United States
Jefferson
Jefferson
Jefferson (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°23′8.88″N 87°53′53.41″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyMarengo
Elevation
233 ft (71 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36745
Area code334

Demographics
Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1870233—
1880204−12.4%
U.S. Decennial Census[3]

Jefferson appeared on the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses. In 1870, it reported 233 residents. Of those, 143 (61%) were black and 90 (39%) were white.[4] Racial demographics in 1880 were not reported. These were the only two occasions on which it appeared on census records.

History

It was founded in 1810, before Marengo was a county or Alabama was a state. Most of the original settlers were veterans of the American Revolution, including John Sample, John Gilmore, and Reuben Hildreth.[5] The village was named Jefferson in 1820, after Thomas Jefferson, and that year saw the first church established.[5] The population had reached 200 people by 1860 and the village contained two dry goods stores, one drugstore, a male and a female academy, a Masonic Lodge, a hotel, two tanneries, a wagon shop, and a blacksmith shop.[5]

Geography

Jefferson is located at 32.38580°N 87.89817°W / 32.38580; -87.89817 and has an elevation of 233 feet (71 m).

Historic sites

Further reading
  • Angela McMillan Howell. Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama (University Press of Mississippi; 2013) 224 pages; an ethnographic study of high school students in fictional Hamilton a pseudonym for the community near Jefferson and John Essex High School.

References
  1. "Jefferson, Alabama". ePodunk Community Profiles. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
  2. Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Pub. Consultants. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-891647-58-1.
  3. "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  4. "Population of Civil Divisions less than counties - Table III. - State of Alabama" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 1870. p. 80.
  5. Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama, page 7. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. ISBN 1-891647-58-X


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