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2,684
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$39,725
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Guin, AL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Guin a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Guin Home page. The Guin Home page provides as much information as possible on Guin. Knowing Guin’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Guin’s Home page, you will also find Guin’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Guin has a population of 2684. 44.9% of Guin’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.1 are female. 49.7% of Guin is married and 66.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $84,677, and the average rent is $437. Household median income in Guin is $39,725, and the individual median income is $17,332. Guin’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.7%), Black(11.6%), Hispanic(7.9%), Other(5.7%), Multiple(2.6%), Native(0.4%).
Guin takes its name from a young country doctor, Dr. Jeremiah ("Jerry") Guin from Tuscaloosa County, who purchased the farm known then as Haley's Trading Post (where is now situate the town of Guin) from a certain John T. Meador in 1870, and who, in turn, had bought the property from a certain Alan Haley, a newcomer to the State, who had built there a country store on the most used road stretching from north to south, in order to accommodate cattle drovers taking their cattle to market in Columbus and Aberdeen, Mississippi.
Jeremiah Guin, while looking for a place to make his home, moved the center of interest about a mile east of Haley's Trading Post (now 12th Street N. and 11 Ave. in present-day Guin).In the early years of its settlement, a saw mill was built and operated in the town, known originally as Kenney Lumber Company (and later known as Brown Lumber Co.), supplying cut timber to the local community.On April 3, 1974, Guin was devastated by a fast moving F5 tornado during the 1974 Super Outbreak, the second-largest tornado outbreak on record.
That storm took twenty-three lives. On July 13, 2010, the citizens of Guin voted to become the first city in Marion County since Prohibition to allow the sale of alcohol.
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