Bradford, Alabama

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Bradford, also known as Dixiana, is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.

History

Bradford was originally named in honor of the English city Bradford by Jim Justice, who was a foreman of the local mines.{{cite book |last=Foscue |first=Virginia |date=1989 |title=Place Names in Alabama |location=Tuscaloosa |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |page=22 |isbn=0-8173-0410-X}} The post office was then named Dixiana after it was found there was already a post office in Alabama operating under the name "Bradford."{{cite book |last=Foscue |first=Virginia |date=1989 |title=Place Names in Alabama |location=Tuscaloosa |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |page=47 |isbn=0-8173-0410-X}}

Multiple different companies mined coal at mines in Bradford, including The Alabama By-Products Corporation,{{cite book|author=Staci Simon Glover|title=Coal Mining in Jefferson County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y2xUpOMIDOQC&pg=PT81|date=May 23, 2011|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2552-1|page=81}} the Birmingham Furnace and Manufacturing Company,{{cite book|title=Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYbKjK00_IcC&pg=PA267|year=1893|publisher=Brant & Fuller|page=267}} and Imperial Coal and Coke Company.{{cite book|title=Coal Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8wfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA37|year=1923|publisher=McGraw-Hill|page=37}}

A post office operated under the name Dixiana from 1880 to 1984.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Jefferson&searchtext=&pagenum=3 | title=Jefferson County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=March 19, 2020}}

References

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States}}

Category:Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Alabama

Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama