Thomasville, Alabama Thomasville Downtown Thomasville in 2008.
Downtown Thomasville in 2008.
Official seal of Thomasville Website City of Thomasville Thomasville is a town/city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States.
Thomasville was established in 1888 and incorporated on November 24 of that year. The former improve of Choctaw Corner, dating back to the antebellum period, was a settlement west of what would turn into Thomasville, but when the merchants there learned that a barns was going to bypass their town to the east, they decided to move their stores to be near the barns . The former improve is now inside the town/city limits.
The tracks between Mobile and Selma were instead of the same year that Thomasville began.
First referred to as "Choctaw", the town was titled after barns financier and former Union Civil War general, Samuel Thomas, after he donated $500 for the assembly of Thomasville's first school. The town had period by the end of the 19th century with various stores, a several hotels and boarding homes, and a depot station. In 1899, what is now downtown was finished by a fire that burned a several blocks of the wood frame buildings.
Thomasville quickly rebuilt, this time in brick, and was once again expand by the start of World War I. Over the next century, Thomasville continued to expanded and expand.
These encompassed garment factories, sawmills, and cotton gins. The barns discontinued its use of the town's depot by the 1950s, but that time also saw the opening of Thomasville's FPS-35 radar base, part of the Air Defense Command's Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, bringing in servicemen and their families. The prototype for the FPS-35 radar was advanced at the Thomasville Aircraft Control and Warning Station. The 1950s also saw the planting of roses along Highway 43, the chief highway through Thomasville, earning it the nickname of The City of Roses.
The 1960s and 1970s saw the opening of various paper mills in the area, an trade that continues to be meaningful to the economy of Thomasville today.
The Thomasville Historic District was designated in 1999 by the National Register of Historic Places.
Thomasville is positioned at coordinates 31.92084 N 87.74008 WCoordinates: 31.92084 N 87.74008 W.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Thomasville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Thomasville before the fire of 1899, looking east down Wilson Avenue.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29% under the age of 20, 45.3% from 20 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Downtown Thomasville in 2008, looking west up Wilson Avenue.
The economy of Thomasville is largely based on retail trade and the service sector, with the town/city serving as a county-wide commercial hub.
Thomasville has its own enhance school system, the Thomasville City School System, that includes Thomasville Elementary with an enrollment of 676 students, Thomasville Middle with 535, and Thomasville High with 448. Thomasville City Schools meet 100% of Alabama's accountability goals in all three schools. Thomasville is also home to Alabama Southern Community College. Alabama Southern is a state-supported, fully accredited, elected two-year college serving southwest Alabama with its chief campuses in Monroeville and Thomasville.
Thomasville had one acute care hospital, Southwest Alabama Medical Center, with 50 licensed beds. In 2009 the hospital's owner, Anne Thompson, and town/city leaders announced plans for a new hospital facility near Thomasville's South Industrial Park, the first new non-urban hospital in Alabama in 30 years. The new facility was projected to cost $35 million and employ roughly 200 citizens . Thomasville Nursing Home is a 70 bed long-term care facility positioned on Mosley Drive. Thomasville is home to one newspaper, the Thomasville Times.
It was established in 1921. The Thomasville News, established in 1996, ceased printed announcement in 2006 when it consolidated with the Democrat-Reporter, based in Linden. Thomasville has one licensed AM airways broadcast, WJDB, and two licensed FM airways broadcasts, WDLG and WJDB-FM. The Thomasville ground of Alabama Southern Community College is home to the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum. The Thomasville Public Library has an annual operating budget of $88,761 and has a compilation of 15,206 books, 455 audio materials, 418 video materials, and 33 serial subscriptions. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thomasville, Alabama.
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