Eddy, Alabama

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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = United States

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|subdivision_name1 = Alabama

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Marshall

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|timezone = Central (CST)

|utc_offset = -6

|timezone_DST = CDT

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|area_code = 256 & 938

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|blank_info = 117849{{cite gnis|117849|Eddy}}

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Eddy is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama, United States. Eddy was most likely named for a local resident.{{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=51}} A post office operated under the name Eddy from 1894 to 1907.{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Marshall |title=Marshall County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=21 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129114241/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Marshall |archive-date=29 November 2014 }}