Marble Valley, Alabama

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Marble Valley, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Marble Valley, Alabama
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Marble Valley, Alabama
Coordinates: 33°02′38″N86°27′07″W / 33.04389°N 86.45194°W / 33.04389; -86.45194
Country United States
State Alabama
County Coosa
Elevation
518 ft (158 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 256 & 938, 334
GNIS feature ID156656 [1]

Marble Valley is an unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.

History

Marble Valley is named for the Sylacauga marble found and quarried locally. [2] post office named Marble Valley operated from 1852 until it closed in 1934. [3] Marble Valley served as a recruitment site for soldiers volunteering to join the Confederate States Army from Coosa County. [4] One soldier from Marble Valley, William Wood, wrote letters home to his family during the Civil War. After his death in a Union prison in 1863, his brothers compiled the letters and testimonies from fellow soldiers into a memoir. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Marble Valley". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 90. ISBN   0-8173-0410-X.
  3. ↑ "Coosa County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Burton, John Michael. Gracie's Alabama Volunteers: The History of the Fifty-ninth Alabama Volunteer Regiment - John M. Burton - Google Books. ISBN   9781455605248 . Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ Wood, Wayne (1986). The Marble Valley Boys - Wayne and Henry Black Wood - Google Books . Retrieved October 29, 2014.
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