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Oak Grove, AL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Oak Grove a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Oak Grove Home page. The Oak Grove Home page provides as much information as possible on Oak Grove. Knowing Oak Grove’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oak Grove’s Home page, you will also find Oak Grove’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Oak Grove has a population of 867. 46.9% of Oak Grove’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.1 are female. 63.3% of Oak Grove is married and 85.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $99,430, and the average rent is $732. Household median income in Oak Grove is $52,143, and the individual median income is $31,394. Oak Grove’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.7%), Black(33.9%), Hispanic(1%), Multiple(0.3%).
The town of Oak Grove is located at 33°11′23″N 86°18′11″W (33.189772, -86.303163).According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.6 km2), all land.Oak Grove is a suburb of the city of Sylacauga. The two municipalities are contiguous, and both run along U.S.
Highway 280, which runs from Birmingham, Alabama, southeastward to Columbus, Georgia, and then through Georgia toward Savannah. Oak Grove is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Birmingham and 70 miles (110 km) north of Montgomery via U.S. Highway 231. Oak Grove is a hilly town occupying both sides of Landers Hill and Merkle Mountain.
There is no town square or downtown. There are numerous businesses along U.S. Highway 280, locally called "the four-lane", and County Road 511, which was formerly U.S. 280 before construction of the four-lane. In the middle of Oak Grove between its two hills there was a cut-your-own Christmas tree farm which yearly drew hundreds of families to Oak Grove.
It was started in 1978 by later Oak Grove Mayor Bloise Zeigler, who operated the farm through 2009. Zeigler grew the official Alabama state Christmas tree, which was displayed at the Alabama Governor's Mansion in 2004. The Christmas tree farm was closed in 2010 and donated by the former Mayor to the Town of Oak Grove as a community garden named "Comet Grove".
It provides free produce to low-income people and cheap produce to everyone else. It has ordinary open gardens and two acres of experimental "plasticulture".
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