Calcis, Alabama

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Calcis is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Alabama, United States, located along Alabama State Route 25, {{convert|3|mi|km}} north-northwest of Vincent.

History

The community's name is derived from the word calcium, in reference to the limestone that was mined in the local quarries.{{cite book|title=Place Names in Alabama|last=Foscue|first=Virginia|date=1989|publisher=The University of Alabama Press|isbn=0-8173-0410-X|location=Tuscaloosa|page=27}} Calcis is located on the former Central of Georgia Railway and was once home to a passenger depot.{{cite book|author=Central of Georgia Railway Company|title=Annual Report of the Central of Georgia Railway Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F9U7AQAAMAAJ|year=1900|page=11}} The community attempted to have a second courthouse and county jail for Shelby County placed in Calcis and went as far as presenting the argument to the Supreme Court of Alabama.{{cite book|author=Alabama. Supreme Court|title=Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9IMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA638|year=1903|publisher=Joel White|pages=637–8}}

The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company operated a limestone quarry in Calcis. This limestone was shipped to Birmingham to be used as flux in iron-making.{{cite book|title=Bulletin - Geological Survey of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVsMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA66|year=1903|publisher=Geological Survey of Alabama|pages=66}} The limestone mined in Calcis was a type known as Trenton limestone.{{cite book|author=Geological Survey of Alabama|title=Bulletin - Geological Survey of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfJ4k2__jDgC&pg=RA1-PA66|year=1924|publisher=Geological Survey of Alabama|pages=66}} The Calcis Lime Works manufactured quicklime in Calcis.{{cite book|author=Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station|title=Bulletin ... Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ag7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|year=1911|pages=307}} Convict labor was used in the Calcis quarries.{{cite book|author=Douglas A. Blackmon|title=Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2v-BYWrjl9IC&pg=PT428|date=4 October 2012|publisher=Icon Books Limited|isbn=978-1-84831-413-9|pages=130}}

A post office was established in 1899, and was in operation until 1967.{{cite web|url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Shelby |title=Shelby County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=28 May 2020 }}

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Shelby County, Alabama

Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama