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Five Points, AL - History
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Welcome to the Five Points Home page. The Five Points Home page provides as much information as possible on Five Points. Knowing Five Points’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Five Points’s Home page, you will also find Five Points’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Five Points has a population of 158. 51.3% of Five Points’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.7 are female. 42.2% of Five Points is married and 85.5% own their own home. Household median income in Five Points is $46,250, and the individual median income is $20,179. Five Points’s Ethnic is the following: White(50.6%), Black(48.1%), Multiple(0.6%), Other(0.6%).
In 1885, Five Points was named because of the five roads converging at a single point. Before this, the post office was known as "Lystra". The town was incorporated in 1915, making it Chambers County's oldest incorporated town. The Baptist Church was the first to take the name of "Five Points" on its building in 1929. Five Points holds the distinction of being the first town of its size to receive electricity from Alabama Power in 1925.
In order to receive power, citizens were required to erect their own poles from Stroud to White Plains.Five Points is home to the first consolidated high school in Alabama. The original Five Points High School was an imposing brick building which had two floors above a full basement and a large auditorium that seated 400 people.
Erected in 1916, it stood amidst an 18-acre (7.3 ha) campus, the only rural school in the state with its own electric and steam-generating plant and water works. The school building was replaced by a one-story building in 1939. In 1974 a fire destroyed that structure which was replaced by the present building.The town elected its first African-American mayor, Geneva Bledsoe, in 1992.
The current mayor is Derrick L. Wright Sr. who won the election by a vote of 50–32 in August 2012.
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