Gallion, Alabama

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

{{Use American English|date=September 2024}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Gallion, Alabama

|image_skyline = File:Map of Waldwic Plantation, Gallion, Hale County, Alabama.png

|caption = Gallion, Alabama, from Snedecor's map of Hale County, Alabama, 1870

|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

|pushpin_map = USA Alabama#USA

|pushpin_label = Gallion

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Alabama

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name = United States

|subdivision_name1 = Alabama

|subdivision_name2 = Hale

|elevation_ft = 190

|population_as_of =

|population_total =

|timezone = Central (CST)

|utc_offset = -6

|coordinates = {{coord|32|29|48|N|87|42|58|W|type:city_region:US-AL_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline,title}}

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|timezone_DST = CDT

|utc_offset_DST = -5

|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 36742

|area_code = 334

|blank_name = GNIS feature ID

|blank_info = 155075

}}

Gallion, originally known as Macon Station, was a plantation owned by Henry Augustine Tayloe on the Demopolis to Uniontown Rail Line in Hale County, Alabama. It is now known as Gallion to honor Jo Gallion, a railroad official, and is an unincorporated community in the aforementioned county.{{Gnis|155075|Gallion, Alabama}} Gallion has a post office with a ZIP code of 36742.{{Gnis|168597|Gallion Post Office}} Gallion has one site on the National Register of Historic Places, a plantation house known as Waldwic.{{NRISref|2008a}}

In 1867, an African-American community named Freetown was established near Gallion.{{cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=38192 |accessdate=September 14, 2022 |title=Freetown Historical Marker |publisher=The Historical Marker Database }}