Jefferson, Alabama
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Demographics
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| Census | Pop. | Template:Sronly | %± |
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| 1870 | 233 | — | |
| 1880 | 204 | Script error: No such module "String".% | |
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Jefferson appeared on the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses. In 1870, it reported 233 residents. Of those, 143 (61%) were black and 90 (39%) were white.[4] Racial demographics in 1880 were not reported. These were the only two occasions on which it appeared on census records.
History
It was founded in 1810, before Marengo was a county or Alabama was a state. Most of the original settlers were veterans of the American Revolution, including John Sample, John Gilmore, and Reuben Hildreth.[5] The village was named Jefferson in 1820, after Thomas Jefferson, and that year saw the first church established.[5] The population had reached 200 people by 1860 and the village contained two dry goods stores, one drugstore, a male and a female academy, a Masonic Lodge, a hotel, two tanneries, a wagon shop, and a blacksmith shop.[5]
Geography
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Historic sites
- Jefferson Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 December 1976.
Further reading
- Angela McMillan Howell. Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama (University Press of Mississippi; 2013) 224 pages; an ethnographic study of high school students in fictional Hamilton a pseudonym for the community near Jefferson and John Essex High School.
References
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- ↑ a b c Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama, page 7. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. Template:ISBN
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