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Alexander City, known to locals as "Alex City", is the largest city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States, with a population of 14,843 as of the 2020 census. It has been the largest community in Tallapoosa County since 1910.
The South Central Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]It consists of an area of about 200 acres (0.81 km 2) with 137 contributing buildings, [2] just south of Alexander City's downtown core. [3]
The district is a collection of houses built by the family of Benjamin Russell. Russell and his children founded the Citizens' Bank of Alexander City in 1900, followed by the Russell Manufacturing Company in 1902. The company, along with B. B. Comer's Avondale Mills, turned Alex City into one of the textile centers of the South.
The North Central Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]The district included 349 buildings deemed contributing and one contributing site, as well as 67 non-contributing buildings, in a 850 acres (3.4 km 2) area roughly spanning between Hall and Summer, Warren and Hillabee, Warren and ...
The Avondale Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama, is a 750 acres (3.0 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] The district includes a textile mill building, formerly the Avondale Mills, which closed in 2006 and is now known as Parkdale Mills.
Alexander City Commercial Historic District, in Alexander City, Alabama, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The listing includes 32 contributing buildings and a contributing site on 8 acres (3.2 ha).
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The name Tallapoosa is of Creek origin; many Creek villages were located along the banks of the lower river before Indian Removal in the 19th century. Tallapoosa County, Alabama is named after the Tallapoosa River, which may mean "pulverized rock" in the Choctaw language.