Thomasville, Alabama

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Thomasville

Sunny
Temperature: 50.9 °F

Humidity: 57 %
Wind Speed: 6 mph NW
Pressure: 29.85 "

Dew Point: 36 °F
Gusts: 25 mph W
Rain Today: 0.01 "

• Advance Disposal plans expansion
  

  While worsening economic times have seen the closure of some area industries and the reduction of jobs at others, there are some industries continuing to show growth in Marengo County.

• Your Forecast: A quick blast of Wintry Weather
  

  There are Winter Weather Advisories in effect for George, and Greene counties in Mississippi...and for Washington and Clarke counties in Alabama.

• Linden seeks access road for industrial park
  

  Now, she is gearing up to the same for Linden's industrial park. The money for Demopolis came from the Alabama Industrial Road and Bridge Corp.

• Countdown begins for ChillyFest
  

  Set for Friday and Saturday, festival organizers are making the final preparations.

• Former Miss Alabama leading theater troupe
  

  Marlesa Greiner orders her theater company like a field marshal, correcting details and making sure everything sticks to her carefully choreographed game plan.

• a Once in a Lifetimea
  

  A group of Thomasville High School students has been given a "once in a lifetime" opportunity.

• Group reaches out to needy
  

  Thanks, helping hands and blessings were found all around during WORD-DOERS of Thomasville's fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner Thursday.

• There's a message for young people in 80-year-old's mission
  

  At first blush, Kenneth "Al" Williams of Thomasville might not seem like a poster boy for staying in school.

• Voters cast ballots in historic election
  

  Voters come and go Tuesday morning at the Cotton Grove precinct behind Whitley's Barbecue on N.C. Highway 8 South.

• Committee discusses north-south corridor
  

  The Commission on Public/Private Partnerships held a forum at Alabama Southern Community College's Demopolis campus yesterday to discuss a proposed north-south corridor from the Quad Cities area to Mobile.

• Alligator found in area resident's yard
  

  You and your wife are about to leave for work. You say your goodbyes, get in your vehicles and get ready to back out onto the road.

• Vice named volunteer of the year
  

  Tommy Vice of Demopolis was named the Marengo County Volunteer of the Year by the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program .

• Pine Hill police officers honored
  

  On the evening of Oct. 4, 2008, Sgt. Nikisha Gailes, Patrol Officer Chance Gaines and Auxiliary Police Officer Buddy Buchanan, was on patrol on the south end of Pine Hilla s police jurisdiction on Alabama ...

• Advanced Disposal begins move to Linden
  

  Advanced Disposal will begin moving their Marengo County operations from Demopolis to Linden next week.

• Thomasville police chief injured in wreck
  

  A south Alabama police chief injured in a weekend car crash remains in a Mobile hospital.

• Beshears crowned Junior Miss COTR
  

  Katelyn Beshears of Demopolis was crowned Miss Junior Christmas on the River, selected out of 34 contestants at the Miss Junior Christmas on the River Pageant at the Demopolis Civic Center last night.

• Stevens-Rice
  

  Dr. and Mrs. Norman Stevens, III, of Jackson, AL, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Sarah Grace, to Adam Kenyon Rice, son of Mr.

• Vigor moves into latest prep poll
  

  Vigor's season-opening victory over Williamson apparently got the attention of sports writers around the state.

• United Security Bancshares, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend
  

  THOMASVILLE, Ala., Aug. 22 AL-UnitedSecurityDiv THOMASVILLE, Ala. , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Security Bancshares, Inc.'s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share ...

City Description

Thomasville is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 4,649. It is notable as the childhood hometown of author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham, who refers to it often in her storytelling. Thomasville was founded in 1888 and has its roots in the nearby town of Choctaw Corner. Choctaw Corner, dating back to the 1850s, was a settlement west of what would become Thomasville, but when the merchants there learned that a railroad was going to bypass their town to the east, they decided to move their stores to be near the railroad. The tracks between Mobile and Selma were completed the same year that Thomasville began. The town was named after a railroad financier and former Union Civil War general, Samuel Thomas, who donated $500 for the construction of Thomasville's first school. The town had expanded by the end of the 19th century with numerous stores, several hotels and boarding houses, and a depot station. In 1899, what is now downtown was destroyed by a fire that burned several blocks of the wood frame buildings. Thomasville quickly rebuilt, this time in brick, and was once again flourishing by the start of World War I. Over the

City Contained By:

• Clarke County
• Alabama

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 22.5328965599 km squared

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