Calhoun, Alabama

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

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Calhoun is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States.{{GNIS|115394}}

History

A post office operated under the name Calhoun from 1851 to 1973.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Lowndes | title=Lowndes County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 March 2020}}

Calhoun was formerly home to the Calhoun Colored School, a private boarding and day school.{{cite book|author=Hasan Kwame Jeffries|title=Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFWVLK4_PCoC&pg=PA263|date=1 July 2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-4306-5|pages=263}}

Ramah Baptist Church in Calhoun is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.{{cite web |title=Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage |url=https://ahc.alabama.gov/alabamaregister.aspx |date= |work= |publisher=Alabama Historical Commission |accessdate=1 March 2020}}

Notable natives

Sidney Dickinson, painter
William K. Payne, president of Georgia State College from 1949 until his death in 1963
Tommy Sampson, second baseman in the Negro leagues

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Lowndes County, Alabama

Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama