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The Old Gurley Town Hall is a contributing property to the Gurley Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 2004. Gurley is a town in Madison County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was ...
The Gurley Historic District is a historic district in Gurley, Alabama. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1995 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1] [2]
Madison County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama.As of the 2020 Census, the population was 388,153, and according to a 2023 population estimate the county has become the second-most populous county in Alabama. [3]
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and 95th most populous in the US. [12] It is the county seat of Madison County with portions extending into Limestone County and Morgan County. [13]
Grades K-12 were once located on the original campus in Gurley. In 1999 grades 9-12 were moved to a separate campus on Brock Road near US Highway 72. Madison County Elementary operated in the original location and buildings built in the 1930s. It was also eventually retired and another elementary and middle school were built.
Ottaway W. Gurley was born in Huntsville, Alabama to John and Rosanna Gurley, formerly enslaved persons, and grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. [1]: 128 After attending public schools [1] and self-educating, [3] he worked as a teacher and in the postal service. [1]: 128 . [3] While living in Pine Bluff, Gurley married Emma Wells, on November 6, 1889.
The Huntsville Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area on the northern border of Alabama.The metro area's principal city is Huntsville, and consists of two counties: Limestone and Madison.
Gurley lies to the northwest, Woodville lies to the southeast, and Owens Cross Roads lies across Keel Mountain to the southwest. The Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge is located along the base of the Cumberland Plateau just east of Paint Rock.