Merrellton, Alabama

Last updated
Merrellton, Alabama
Unincorporated community
USA Alabama location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Merrellton, Alabama
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Merrellton, Alabama
Coordinates: 33°51′48″N85°44′31″W / 33.86333°N 85.74194°W / 33.86333; -85.74194 Coordinates: 33°51′48″N85°44′31″W / 33.86333°N 85.74194°W / 33.86333; -85.74194
Country United States
State Alabama
County Calhoun
Elevation 673 ft (205 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
GNIS feature ID 160086 [1]

Merrellton, also known as East and West Junction, Junction, and Merrelton, is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. [1]

Calhoun County, Alabama County in the United States

Calhoun County is a county in the east central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 118,572. Its county seat is Anniston. It was named in honor of John C. Calhoun, noted politician and US Senator from South Carolina.

Contents

Merrellton is located on Alabama State Route 21, 16.6 mi (26.7 km) north of Anniston.

State Route 21 (SR 21) is a 279-mile (449 km) state highway that extends from the Florida state line, near Atmore in Escambia County to Piedmont in Calhoun County. The route travels almost the entire length of the state from the northeast to the southwest. It is the longest signed state route in Alabama.

Anniston, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. According to 2013 Census estimates, the city had a population of 22,666.

History

A post office was established in 1884 and was named Merrill, after the daughter of the postmistress, Adelia E. Frank. A school was established in the early 1900s. [2] The post office closed in 1923, and the school closed in 1927. [1] [3]

In 1929, a tornado struck an African-American church which was used as a school, demolishing the building and killing five pupils. [4]

Merrellton was a historic junction for two now-abandoned railway lines, the East & West Railroad and the Southern Railway. [5] In 1996, the city of Jacksonville acquired from the Norfolk Southern Railway the track bed of the former Southern Railway which passed through Merrellton. The track bed was used to complete a portion of the Chief Ladiga Trail, Alabama's first rail trail. [6]

Southern Railway (U.S.) railway company in the United States, active 1894–1990

The Southern Railway is a name of a class 1 railroad that was based in the Southern United States. The railroad is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.

Jacksonville, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

Jacksonville is a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 12,548, which is a 49% increase since 2000. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jacksonville State University is located here, which is a center of commerce and one of the largest employers in the area.

Norfolk Southern Railway American Class I railway (1990–)

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates 19,420 miles (31,250 km) route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia, and has rights in Canada over the Albany to Montréal route of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and previously on CN from Buffalo to St. Thomas. NS is responsible for maintaining 28,400 miles (45,700 km), with the remainder being operated under trackage rights from other parties responsible for maintenance. The most common commodity hauled on the railway is coal from mines in Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The railway also offers the largest intermodal network in eastern North America.

Notable people

Herman Clarence Nixon was an American political scientist and a member of the Southern Agrarians.

Southern Agrarians

The Southern Agrarians were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the Southern United States, who united to write a pro–Southern agrarian manifesto, published as the essay collection I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). The Southern Agrarians greatly contributed to the Southern Renaissance, the revival of Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s, and were based at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, with John Crowe Ransom as the unofficial leader.

Related Research Articles

Piedmont, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

Piedmont is a city in Calhoun and Cherokee counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 4,878 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is approximately one hour and fifteen minutes West of Atlanta, one and a half hours North East of Birmingham, twenty minutes North of Anniston, Alabama and twenty five minutes east of Gadsden, Alabama. The campus of Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama is approximately ten miles South of Piedmont. The city is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountain chain and is surrounded by mountains on the city's southern and eastern sides. The area is home to Duggar Mountain, which is Alabama's second highest point, only trailing Mt. Cheaha by a small margin. Piedmont is a popular tourist destination for outdoor enthusiasts due to its close proximity to many nearby hiking trails, streams and rivers, mountains, the Duggar Mountain Wilderness, the Talladega National Forret and Coleman Lake. Weiss Lake is fourteen miles North of Piedmont and is known as "The Crappie Capital of the World." Piedmont is home to Terrapin Creek, which is a popular destination for kayaking, canoing, camping, swimming and fishing. Piedmont is also home to the Chief Ladiga Trail, which is a paved trail utilized for walking, jogging and bicycling. The trail runs through downtown Piedmont and runs all the way to Atlanta to the East and to Anniston, Alabama to the South and West. The city's school system is an award winning and nationally recognised education system. The school system has state of the art facilities, including artificial turf on the football field and an indoor practice facility for the football team, which is also utilized as a community storm shelter. The school systems sports teams have won state championships in football, track and field and wrestling and have won numerous area/region championships in men/women's basketball, baseball, softball and men's golf. Two state highways, AL-9 and AL-21 run through the city limits of Piedmont, as well as US Highway 278. Many surrounding communities are served by the 36272 ZIP code, including Spring Garden, Rock Run, Knighten's Crossroads, and Nance's Creek. The current mayor is Bill Baker, who was chosen by the city council to lead after elected mayor Rick Freeman resigned due to medical issues.

Loma, Colorado Unincorporated community in Colorado, United States

Loma is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.

Chief Ladiga Trail

The Chief Ladiga Trail is a rail trail in Alabama that stretches for 33 miles (53 km) from Anniston to the Alabama-Georgia state line. It is the state's first rail trail project.

Dugger Mountain Wilderness

Dugger Mountain Wilderness is Alabama's third and newest wilderness area. Dedicated April 2000, Dugger Mountain Wilderness covers 9,200 acres (3,700 ha) of Talladega National Forest in Calhoun County and Cleburne County in Alabama.

Pinhoti National Recreation Trail

The Pinhoti Trail is a Southern Appalachian Mountains long-distance trail, 335 miles (540 km) in length, located in the United States within the states of Alabama and Georgia. The trail's southern terminus is on Flagg Mountain, near Weogufka, Alabama, the southernmost peak in the state that rises over 1,000 feet (300 m). The trail's northern terminus is where it joins the Benton MacKaye Trail. The trails highest point is Buddy Cove Gap, with an elevation of 3164 feet near the Cohutta Wilderness. Its lowest point above sea level is close to Weogufka creek near Weogufka State Forest at 545 feet. .

Goshen, Oregon Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

Goshen is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the junction of Oregon Route 58, Oregon Route 99, and Interstate 5.

State Route 204 or SR-204 is a 9.620-mile (15.482 km) highway that runs from U.S. Highway 431 at Crystal Springs to State Route 21 at Jacksonville. It is two lanes in its entirety.

Munger, Minnesota Unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States

Munger is an unincorporated community in Solway Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Casco Junction is an unincorporated community located in the town of Casco in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. The community was an important railroad outpost for the Ahnapee and Western Railway where Casco Junction acted as the southern terminus of the railroad. Today the now defunct railroad's track has been converted to a walking trail that connects Luxemburg to Algoma and Sturgeon Bay via the Ahnapee State Trail.

Culp Creek, Oregon Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

Culp Creek is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, southeast of Cottage Grove on the Row River. It lies on Row River Road between Dorena and Disston.

Salisbury, Oregon Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

Salisbury is an unincorporated historic community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. It lies along the Powder River at the junction of Oregon Route 7 and Oregon Route 245 about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Baker City. The elevation is 3,655 feet (1,114 m).

Hilgard, Oregon human settlement in Oregon, United States of America

Hilgard is an unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States, at the junction of Oregon Route 244 with Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30, near the Grande Ronde River. It is also the site of a junction (wye) of the Union Pacific Railroad. Hilgard Junction State Recreation Area is across the river from the community.

Olene, Oregon Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

Olene is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Klamath Falls on Oregon Route 140. Olene currently has a general store and at one time it had a school. In 1940 Olene had a population of 62 and was considered a suburb of Klamath Falls. Olene was the center of a prosperous dairy and potato farming district.

Benson Junction, Florida Unincorporated community in Florida, United States

Benson Junction is an unincorporated community located in southwest Volusia County, Florida, within the city limits of DeBary. It is the former location of the Ox Fibre Brush Company and presently an industrial location. Benson Junction is located just west of U.S. Highway 17-92, along Benson Junction Road.

Gate, Washington Unincorporated community in Washington, United States

Gate is an unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Gate is located on the Black River 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west-northwest of Rochester.

Iron City, Alabama Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

Iron City, also spelled Ironcity, is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

Turkey Town, Alabama Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

Turkey Town is a ghost town in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Caffee Junction, Alabama Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

Caffee Junction, also known as Coffey Junction, Greeley, Martaban, and Rickey, is an unincorporated community in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. Caffee Junction is located along U.S. Route 11, 4.1 miles (6.6 km) north-northeast of Woodstock.

Hildebrand, Oregon Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States

Hildebrand is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Bliss Road off Oregon Route 140 northeast of Dairy.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Merrellton". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ O'Dell, Kimberly (1998). Calhoun County. Arcadia. p. 66.
  3. ↑ "Merrellton School (historical)". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  4. ↑ "Freakish Storms Leave Six Dead" (PDF). The Daily Iowan. March 23, 1929.
  5. ↑ "Calhoun County" (PDF). University of Alabama. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Chief Ladiga National Recreation Trail, Jacksonville and Piedmont, Alabama". National Recreation Trails. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  7. ↑ I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. LSU Press. 1977. p. 388.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.