Arcola, Alabama

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Arcola, Alabama
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Arcola
Coordinates: 32°33′58″N87°46′55″W / 32.56617°N 87.78183°W / 32.56617; -87.78183
Country United States
State Alabama
County Marengo
Elevation
128 ft (39 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36742
Area code 334

Arcola is a ghost town on the Black Warrior River in what is now Hale County, formerly Marengo County, Alabama. [1] Named to honor the French victory during the Battle of Arcola, it was established in the early 1820s by former French Bonapartists as part of their Vine and Olive Colony, after they were forced to abandon their first town at Demopolis and many found Aigleville unsuitable. [2] The first settler at the site was Frederic Ravesies, who established himself at what later became the Hatch Plantation. [3] Although never more than a village, Arcola became the largest settlement in the colony. Beginning in the 1830s American settlers moved into the area and purchased most of the former French land grants, primarily using Arcola as a river landing. By the 1850s the French settlement had disappeared, replaced by a community of adjoining plantations. [2]

Demographics

According to the census returns from 1850 [4] -2010 [5] for Alabama, it has never reported a population figure separately on the U.S. Census. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Arcola
  2. 1 2 Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 60. ISBN   0-8173-1125-4.
  3. ↑ Smith, Winston (1967). Days of Exile: The Story of the Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: W. B. Drake and Son. pp. 76–77.
  4. ↑ http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1850c-11.pdf, 1850 Census (places)
  5. ↑ http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-1-2.pdf, 2010 AL Census
  6. ↑ Division, US Census Bureau Administration and Customer Services. "US Census Bureau Publications - Census of Population and Housing". www.census.gov. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
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