Oak Bowery, Alabama

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Oak Bowery, Alabama
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Oak Bowery
Coordinates: 32°45′2″N85°26′11″W / 32.75056°N 85.43639°W / 32.75056; -85.43639
Country United States
State Alabama
County Chambers
Elevation
839 ft (256 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36862
Area code 334

Oak Bowery is an unincorporated community in southern Chambers County, Alabama, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 431, north of Auburn.

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Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
1880 120
U.S. Decennial Census [1]

History

Oak Bowery was first settled in 1828 by South Carolinians and was originally named Woodlawn. A Methodist camp meeting ground named Oak Bowery was established there soon after settlement, and the community adopted that name around 1835. In 1837, the Oak Bowery Female College was established, and in 1850 the East Alabama Masonic College located there. The community grew rapidly in the 1830s and 1840s, but a change in the planned routing of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from Oak Bowery to a more southerly route ended the community's growth. Oak Bowery is today a small community of only a few residences and a church.

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References

  1. "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Miriam Ann Kirkwood Syler, "Oak Bowery, Historic Community", Lee County and Her Forebears. (Montgomery, Ala.: Herff Jones, 1983), 19.
  3. Miriam Ann Kirkwood Syler, "Oak Bowery, Historic Community", Lee County and Her Forebears, 20.
  4. "JONES, John William", retrieved February 7, 2009.
  5. Miriam Ann Kirkwood Syler, "Oak Bowery, Historic Community", Lee County and Her Forebears, 18.