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Abbeville, AL - History
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Welcome to the Abbeville Home page. The Abbeville Home page provides as much information as possible on Abbeville. Knowing Abbeville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Abbeville’s Home page, you will also find Abbeville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Abbeville has a population of 2572. 51.9% of Abbeville’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.1 are female. 37.8% of Abbeville is married and 64.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $84,798, and the average rent is $534. Household median income in Abbeville is $41,500, and the individual median income is $19,171. Abbeville’s Ethnic is the following: White(54.5%), Black(40.2%), Hispanic(5.7%), Other(2.7%), Pacific(1.4%), Native(0.7%), Multiple(0.4%).
Abbeville suffered a catastrophic tragedy that wiped out most of the town when an arsonist almost burned the whole town to the ground on May 20, 1906. An entire block of Kirkland Street, the major portion of the business district, was destroyed. The nearby courthouse was almost lost but was saved through the efforts of the “bucket brigade” firefighters, who kept pouring water on the flat roof.
As is usually the case with disasters, some of the citizens made the unfortunate decision to take advantage by stealing items that were saved from the fire. During the week of June 28, 1906, a mechanic named Ward was arrested and charged with arson and starting the fire. His bond was set at $500. After his bail was paid, Mr.
Ward fled Abbeville and the county and was never heard from again. J. C. Espy and A. C. Crawford, who signed Mr. Ward’s bail bond, grudgingly paid the bail. The businessmen who had insurance recovered all or most of their losses. Unfortunately, some businessmen had no insurance. Nonetheless, the residents were determined to rebuild the downtown area.
Brick buildings replaced the wooden structures that had been lost in the fire.In February 1937, Wes Johnson, an 18-year-old African-American man, was accused of attacking a white woman and was arrested. He was abducted from the Henry County jail by a mob of 100 white men and lynched: shot and hanged to death.
His body was found "bullet marked" and "swinging from a tree." As was typical of lynchings, none of the members of the mob was charged with a crime. Faye Walker Howell, a resident of nearby Dothan, Alabama, has done research on this case for 20 years. She has documented that Johnson and the white woman had a consensual sexual relationship.
The white men could not live with that, and lynched the young man. Howell was featured on 60 Minutes on April 8, 2018 during an episode featuring Oprah Winfrey touring the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Johnson is among the lynching victims memorialized there. Henry County is noted as among the 805 counties where lynchings took place.
It had a total of 13 lynchings during the decades when this was frequent. In 1937 the Alabama Attorney General filed an impeachment against the Henry County sheriff for his failure to protect Johnson. An appeal was heard by the Alabama Supreme Court, which overturned the impeachment in June 1937. The Alabama Attorney General openly declared that Johnson was innocent of the charges against him.In 1944, Recy Taylor, an African-American woman, was gang-raped by seven white men.
Although the men admitted the rape to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict them. From a historic point of view, "the Recy Taylor case brought the building blocks of the Montgomery bus boycott together a decade earlier" than that event.On November 5, 2002 Kirkland Street was hit by an F2 tornado.
The tornado destroyed several single-family homes, mobile homes and many other homes and businesses. The damage at the Abbeville High School was deemed too costly to repair and was rebuilt in a new location. Downed power lines and uprooted trees were numerous and widespread. The Old Pioneer Cemetery was especially hard-hit.
Tombstones were toppled, and eighty-year-old trees were uprooted in the Old Pioneer Cemetery. Slabs on graves were cracked, revealing the vaults underneath. Restoration of the old cemetery took several years and several thousand dollars to complete.
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