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


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

Hokes Bluff has a population of 4253. 41.9% of Hokes Bluff’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.1 are female. 56.8% of Hokes Bluff is married and 91.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $148,049, and the average rent is $1,074. Household median income in Hokes Bluff is $53,920, and the individual median income is $36,376. Hokes Bluff’s Ethnic is the following: White(99.1%), Hispanic(2.1%), Multiple(0.9%).


Hokes Bluff was established on a high bluff overlooking the Coosa River. The town was called "The Bluff", and was used as a lookout station for Native American tribes, as they could see a great distance across, up and down the Coosa River. Hokes Bluff was one of the staging areas where the Cherokee were collected, and sent to Gunter's Landing (Guntersville), and west to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Settlers came into the area in the 1840s.


Daniel Hoke Jr. was among the settlers, who came in 1850 and built a trading post and a blacksmith shop near the site of the bluff. The town was renamed "Hoke's Bluff" after him in 1853 by W.B. Wynne, a friend of Hoke. The town was raided and pillaged during the Civil War by raiding parties of both sides of the Union and the Confederacy.


John Henry Wisdom, who became the "Paul Revere of the Confederacy" after making his famous ride from Gadsden to Rome during the Civil War, was a resident of Hokes Bluff. A new mail route was established from Gadsden to Hokes Bluff in 1890. Before it was established, Hokes Bluff had poor mail service, receiving most mail by steamboat.


The post office was established in 1877 and discontinued in 1931. One legend associated with the town is about Tawannah Springs, the town's water supply. It is said that the springs are named for a Native American princess (Tawannah) who grieved herself to death after her cousin, Princess Noccalula, jumped herself to death at Noccalula Falls in Gadsden. Hokes Bluff was incorporated in 1946 with a population of 1,200.


W.B. Ford was the first mayor. In 1949, a water system was installed with a 75,000 gallon reservoir and 54 hydrants. In 1953, gas was installed in the town, and in 1956, the streets were paved.


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