Stewart, Alabama

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

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Stewart, also known as Stewart's Station, is an unincorporated community in Hale County, Alabama, United States.

History

Stewart was founded in 1844 as a stop on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. It was first called Stewart's Station, in honor of an early settler of the area, Charlie Stewart.{{cite book |last=Foscue |first=Virginia |date=1989 |title=Place Names in Alabama |location=Tuscaloosa |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |page=132 |isbn=0-8173-0410-X }} A post office operated under the name Stewart's Station from 1871 to 1903, and under the name Stewart from 1903 to 1982.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Hale | title=Hale County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=14 August 2015}}

Demographics

{{US Census population

|1880= 41

|1890= 255

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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html |title=U.S. Decennial Census |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507121432/http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html |archive-date=May 7, 2015 }}

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Stewart's Station was listed on the 1880 & 1890 U.S. Censuses, having briefly been an incorporated community. It was no longer listed as a town beginning in 1900, except for the county precinct #16 that also bore its name from 1900 to 1950.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Hale County, Alabama

Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama