Possum Trot, Alabama

Possum Trot, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 33°52′15″N85°45′07″W / 33.87083°N 85.75194°W / 33.87083; -85.75194
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Calhoun
Elevation	640 ft (200 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes	256 & 938
GNIS feature ID	149212 [1]

Possum Trot is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

Notable people

• Rick Bragg, a journalist, was raised in Possum Trot. ^[2]
• Herman Clarence Nixon, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians, was born in Possum Trot. ^[3] In 1941, he wrote a book about his hometown, entitled Possum Trot: Rural Community, South. ^[3]
• Lilly Ledbetter, American activist and namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was born in Possum Trot

References

1. "Possum Trot". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Huber, Patrick; Goodson, Steve; Anderson, David (January 31, 2014). The Hank Williams Reader. Oxford University Press. p. 279. ISBN   978-0-19-934989-0.
3. Sullivan, Patricia (Summer 1987). "Reviewed Work: Hillbilly Realist: Herman Clarence Nixon of Possum Trot by Sarah Newman Shouse". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 71 (2): 351–354. JSTOR   40581683.