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2,742
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$48,468
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Luverne, AL - History
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Welcome to the Luverne Home page. The Luverne Home page provides as much information as possible on Luverne. Knowing Luverne’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Luverne’s Home page, you will also find Luverne’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Luverne has a population of 2742. 50.1% of Luverne’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.9 are female. 43% of Luverne is married and 62.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $97,028, and the average rent is $564. Household median income in Luverne is $48,468, and the individual median income is $22,808. Luverne’s Ethnic is the following: White(63.4%), Black(26.8%), Asian(5.3%), Multiple(3.9%), Hispanic(0.6%), Other(0.6%).
Luverne was one of numerous towns developed in the state as a result of railroad construction. On July 2, 1880, the Montgomery and Southern Railway was created to construct a new railroad linking Montgomery to the Florida coast. The company completed around 30 miles (48 km) of narrow gauge track by September 18, 1882.
The company was reorganized as the Montgomery and Florida Railway in May 1886, and a second time as the Northwest and Florida Railroad in 1888. In November 1888, the railroad reached the site of Luverne in the central part of Crenshaw County, near the Patsaliga River. Now totaling 51 miles (82 km) the line was converted to standard gauge by July 1889 and it was decided to proceed no further.
The Alabama Terminal and Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Alabama Midland Railway, controlled the railroad by 1889 and the line from Montgomery to Luverne was into the network of the latter.The new railroad terminus attracted related development, and the town grew. It was incorporated in 1891, and became a center of timbering in the Piney Woods of southern Alabama, as the land was not fertile enough to be suitable for large-scale cotton plantation agriculture. In 1893, the citizens of Crenshaw County voted to move the county seat from Rutledge to the more populous Luverne.By the late 1930s, lynchings of African Americans were increasingly conducted in small groups or in secret, rather than in the former mass public displays.
On June 22, 1940, an African-American man named Jesse Thornton was lynched in Luverne for failing to address a white man with the title of "Mister". He was fatally shot and his body was later found in the Patsaliga River. The Equal Justice Initiative documented that the white man Thornton had apparently offended by his Jim Crow infraction was a police officer.
This was the only lynching recorded in the county.
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