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Covington County, is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census the population was 37,765. Its county seat is Andalusia. Its name is in honor of Brigadier General Leonard Covington of Maryland and Mississippi, who died in the War of 1812.
Andalusia is a city in and the county seat of Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 9,015.
Florala is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 1,984.
Lockhart is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 516.
Opp is a city in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 6,659. Opp is named after Henry Opp, a lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Seth Hammett is an American educator, politician, and economic development professional who was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1979 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2001 to 2010.
U.S. Highway 29 (US 29), internally designated by the Alabama Department of Transportation as State Route 15 (SR 15), is a southwest-northeast state highway across the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. US 29 and SR 15 traverse Alabama in a general northeast/southwest slope. It has never been a major route in the state; its significance was completely overshadowed with the completion of Interstate 65 (I-65) and I-85 during the 1970s. Today, US 29 and SR 15 serve primarily to connect numerous smaller towns and cities in the southwest, south-central, and eastern parts of Alabama.
South Alabama Regional Airport at Bill Benton Field, formerly known as Andalusia-Opp Airport, is a public use airport in Covington County, Alabama, United States. It is located four nautical miles east of the central business district of Andalusia and about 9 miles (14 km) west of Opp. The airport is governed by the South Alabama Regional Airport Authority, with members appointed by the Andalusia City Council, the Opp Council, and the Covington County Commission.
The Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery is a Roman Catholic congregation of women. whose motherhouse, St. Walburg Monastery, is located at Villa Madonna, in Villa Hills, Kentucky. It was founded in 1859 by three sisters of the Benedictine congregation of Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, who came to Covington to teach the German-speaking children of St. Joseph's parish. They became an independent congregation in 1867. Villa Madonna Academy, a private, Roman Catholic K-12 school is an integral part of the sisters' ministry in Kentucky. Besides operating the Academy, the sisters taught in parish schools and staffed St. John's Orphanage.
State Route 54 (SR 54) is a 15.995-mile-long (25.741 km) state highway in the extreme southern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The western terminus of the highway is at an intersection with U.S. Route 331 (US 331) at Florala just north of the Florida state line. The eastern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 52 just west of Samson.
Florala City Park, formerly Florala State Park, is a 40-acre (16 ha) public recreation area in Florala, Alabama. The park wraps around the Alabama side of Lake Jackson, a 500-acre (200 ha) lake that straddles the Alabama-Florida state line.
Florala Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Florala, a city in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
Chapel Hill is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, located on State Route 54, northeast of Florala.
WS Harlan Elementary School is an American elementary school that was honored by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2009.
Straughn High School is a public school located in the Straughn community near Andalusia in Covington County, Alabama. It is the largest 9th–12th Grade school in the Covington County Schools (CCS) system. It is classified as a 3-A school in the Alabama High School Athletic Association.
Straughn, also known as Haygood, is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
Huckaville, also known as Liberty Hill, is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States. Huckaville is located on Alabama State Route 55, 7.1 miles (11.4 km) northwest of Florala.
Frederick Ausfeld was a US-based, German-born architect. He designed buildings in Montgomery, Alabama, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Carlos A. Moon, also known as Shiney Moon, was an American painter from the state of Alabama. He was a member of the Dixie Art Colony and the Bayou Art Colony. Initially an oil painter, he became "one of Dixie's most widely known water color artists."
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In September 1955, the Covington County Board of Education denied Ruth Wheeler's third child, a six-year-old boy named Troy Ammons, admittance to the white school, Gantt Elementary School No.1, in Andalusia, Alabama. Instead, the ...
