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Boaz, AL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Boaz a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Boaz Home page. The Boaz Home page provides as much information as possible on Boaz. Knowing Boaz’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Boaz’s Home page, you will also find Boaz’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Boaz has a population of 9587. 48.5% of Boaz’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.5 are female. 44.6% of Boaz is married and 63% own their own home. The Average Home price is $108,759, and the average rent is $548. Household median income in Boaz is $41,556, and the individual median income is $21,910. Boaz’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.2%), Hispanic(8%), Black(4.5%), Other(2.2%), Multiple(1.7%), Native(0.3%), Asian(0.1%).
First settled in the 1850s, the town of Boaz was officially founded November 11, 1878, by the Sparks family of Georgia. A post office has been in operation since 1887. The city was named after Boaz, from the Bible. It was incorporated in 1897. The Julia Street Memorial United Methodist Church, Snead Junior College Historic District, the Thomas A.
Snellgrove Homestead and the Edward Fenns Whitman House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage lists the Boaz Elementary School, the First Baptist Church and Cemetery, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.In the early 1980s, the VF Corporation opened an outlet store in an abandoned factory, whose success prompted other retailers to open stores.
In the late 1980s, Boaz was a tourist attraction with 130 outlet stores, attracting five million people per year. Retailers moved away from Boaz due to a dwindling customer base, dropping to 80 stores in the early 1990s, with the Great Recession of the 2000s driving away even more. In 2016, three buildings of the outlet center were demolished.
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