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Headland, AL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Headland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Headland Home page. The Headland Home page provides as much information as possible on Headland. Knowing Headland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Headland’s Home page, you will also find Headland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Headland has a population of 4684. 49.8% of Headland’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.2 are female. 59.7% of Headland is married and 93.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $150,278, and the average rent is $808. Household median income in Headland is $65,278, and the individual median income is $31,287. Headland’s Ethnic is the following: White(76.3%), Black(22.6%), Asian(1%), Hispanic(0.1%), Multiple(0.1%).


James Joshua Head (1839–1927) founded Headland in 1871 as "Head's Land". He patented land, plotted the town and built his home there. The Headland post office opened on October 10, 1871. The Headland Public Square was laid off in 1871 by Head with a vision for a branch courthouse. Henry County voters decided in the 1879 and 1885 courthouse site elections not to locate a courthouse on the public square.


Henry has been Alabama's only county with three courthouses at the same time. Head sold Headland to Hosey C. Powell in 1879, who sold to Dr. Wyatt S. Oates in 1880. Head moved to Tampa, Florida, in 1883 and later established Lake Magdalene, Florida. Headland incorporated in 1884 with 26 white and 4 Black petitioners.


The railroad was built in 1893 along with the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1980. It has since been disassembled. Headland's The Spirit of the American Doughboy statue was the first public statue in Henry County. It was erected on the square in 1926 as a tribute to the town's military dead.


The square was paved in 1935. As of the 1960 U.S. census, Headland had grown into Henry County's largest city, narrowly edging out Abbeville, which had been the largest since Dothan was removed into Houston County in 1903. Headland lost that distinction to Abbeville again in 1970, but regained it in 1980 and has since solidified its hold.


In 2000, it broke Dothan's then-Henry County 1900 record of 3,275 residents with 3,523 and added nearly 1,000 more by 2010.


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