Card Switch, Alabama

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Card Switch, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Card Switch
Coordinates: 34°52′22″N85°51′20″W / 34.87278°N 85.85556°W / 34.87278; -85.85556
Country United States
State Alabama
County Jackson
Elevation
643 ft (196 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID115611 [1]

Card Switch is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. [1]

A CSX railway line runs through Card Switch.

The Burch Cemetery is located in Card Switch. [2] Also located there is the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church. Elias Camp Morris, who went on to become president of the National Baptist Convention in 1895, joined the church in 1874 and was licensed to preach the following year. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Card Switch". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Burch Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ↑ Dorrien, Gary (2015). The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. Yale University Press. p. 405. ISBN   9780300216332.


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