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Oak Bowery, Alabama

Coordinates: 32°45′2″N 85°26′11″W / 32.75056°N 85.43639°W / 32.75056; -85.43639
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Oak Bowery, Alabama
The Oak Bowery Cash Grocery building in 2019.
The Oak Bowery Cash Grocery building in 2019.
Oak Bowery is located in Alabama
Oak Bowery
Oak Bowery
Oak Bowery is located in the United States
Oak Bowery
Oak Bowery
Coordinates: 32°45′2″N 85°26′11″W / 32.75056°N 85.43639°W / 32.75056; -85.43639
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyChambers
Elevation
839 ft (256 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36862
Area code334

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

Demographics

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Historical population
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1880120
U.S. Decennial Census[1]

History

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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.

Notable people

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Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c 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.