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Double Springs is a town in Winston County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of Winston County. [ 2 ] The county seat was initially located at Houston , but by referendum in 1883, Double Springs prevailed and it was removed to there.
Winston County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,540. [2] Its county seat is Double Springs. [3] Known as Hancock County before 1858, [1] the county is named in honor of John A. Winston, the fifteenth Governor of Alabama.
House bill #264 was passed December 12, 1882 to move the county seat to Double Springs; the move was made on July 23, 1883. A 40 x 60 wooden building consisting of two stories was the court house building in Double Springs. On August 5, 1891, fire spread through this court house destroying it.
This is a list of county courthouses in Alabama. Each of Alabama 's 67 counties has a courthouse in the county seat . Barbour , Coffee , Jefferson , Marshall and St. Clair counties have two courthouses each.
Winston County's representative at the January 1861 Alabama Secession Convention was Charles Christopher Sheats, a 21-year-old schoolteacher. He refused to sign Alabama's Ordinance of Secession, even after it had been passed by a vote of 61 to 39. Sheats became so vocal in his opposition that he was eventually arrested.
State Route 33 (SR 33) is a 50.609-mile-long (81.447 km) state highway in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at its intersection with U.S. Route 278 (US 278) at Double Springs. The northern terminus of the highway is at its intersection with US 72 Alt. and SR 20 at Courtland.
Another common reason for a double closing is to conceal the identity of the purchaser or seller. Typically, a real estate investor first enters into a contract to purchase a property and then subsequently (before closing the purchase) enters into a contract to sell the property (hopefully for a higher price). The investor then utilizes a ...
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