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Leeds, AL - History


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


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

Leeds has a population of 12555. 52.8% of Leeds’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.2 are female. 53.4% of Leeds is married and 77% own their own home. The Average Home price is $164,688, and the average rent is $887. Household median income in Leeds is $62,227, and the individual median income is $35,338. Leeds’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.9%), Black(13.8%), Hispanic(3.9%), Multiple(2.7%), Other(0.4%), Asian(0.1%), Pacific(0.1%).


The tale of John Henry was believed to have originated in Leeds. In this folk story, John Henry, the "steel-drivin' man", races and wins against a steam engine in the laying of railroad that penetrates the Oak Mountain Tunnel in Leeds. Retired chemistry professor and folklorist John Garst, of the University of Georgia, has argued that the contest happened at the Coosa Mountain Tunnel or the Oak Mountain Tunnel of the Columbus and Western Railway (now part of Norfolk Southern Railway) in Leeds on September 20, 1887.Based on documentation that corresponds with the account of C.C.


Spencer, who claimed in the 1920s to have witnessed the contest, Garst speculates that John Henry may have been a man named Henry who was born a slave to P.A.L. Dabney, the father of the chief engineer of that railroad, in 1850. Since 2007, the city of Leeds has honored John Henry's legend during an annual festival held on the third weekend in September, the Leeds Downtown Folk Festival & John Henry Celebration.


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