789
54%
$28,295
10.8%
America/Chicago
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Leighton, AL - History
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Welcome to the Leighton Home page. The Leighton Home page provides as much information as possible on Leighton. Knowing Leighton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Leighton’s Home page, you will also find Leighton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Leighton has a population of 789. 46.9% of Leighton’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.1 are female. 23.8% of Leighton is married and 54.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $66,518, and the average rent is $617. Household median income in Leighton is $28,295, and the individual median income is $14,681. Leighton’s Ethnic is the following: Black(61.6%), White(38.4%).
The first settlers in what is now Leighton arrived in the early 1810s. The community was initially known as "Crossroads" for its location at the intersection of two early stage coach roads. The name was later changed to "Leighton" for town's first postmaster, the Reverend William Leigh. The town developed as a cotton shipping center in the 1830s after the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad constructed a railroad line through the area.
Leighton incorporated in 1890.Leighton originally straddled the county line of Franklin and Lawrence Counties. When Colbert County was carved off in 1867, the town still remained divided between the new county and Lawrence. On the 1880 U.S. Census, it reported having 196 residents on the Colbert County side and 83 on the Lawrence County side.
After the 1890 Census, Colbert County's eastern border was expanded eastward several miles to Town Creek, placing Leighton wholly within Colbert.In 1909, an African-American man named Sam Davenport was lynched by a mob of some two dozen men in Leighton. Davenport was suspected of burning a white man's barn.
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