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0160702. Website. www.cityofsylacauga.net. Sylacauga is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,578. [2] Sylacauga is known for its fine white marble bedrock. [3] This was discovered shortly after settlers moved into the area and has been quarried ever since. The marble industry was the ...
Website. TalladegaCountyAL.org. County Number 61 on Alabama Licence Plates. Talladega County is one of the sixty-seven counties located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 82,149. [2] Its county seat is Talladega. [1][3]
Sylacauga marble. Giuseppe Moretti 's Head of Christ, carved from Sylacauga marble. Sylacauga marble, also commonly known as Alabama marble, is a marble that is found in a belt running through Talladega County, Alabama. [1] It is prized for its pure white color and its crystalline structure. The stone is named after the town of Sylacauga ...
The library was founded in 1936 as the Sylacauga Public Library. It was moved three years later, and after a $5,000 grant by the family B. B. Comer, the library was renamed in his honor. [2] The library was again renamed to Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center in 1962. [1] It was created with a marble exterior, and was originally built ...
The Sylacauga City Schools (SCS) is the school district of Sylacauga, Alabama. Sylacauga City Schools serve 2,184 students and employ 248 faculty and staff. [3] The district includes two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.
The Avondale Mills were a system of textile mills located predominantly in Alabama, but also in Georgia and South Carolina, with headquarters in Birmingham, and later in Sylacauga, Alabama. The Birmingham neighborhood of Avondale was chosen to be the site of the first mill, hence the naming of the company. Founded in 1897, the mills employed ...
Added to NRHP. August 28, 1986. The Welch-Averiett House, in Talladega County, Alabama near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] The listing included four contributing buildings on 44 acres (18 ha), on a land parcel of about 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ).
Coosa County, Alabama. Coosa County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 10,387. [1] Its county seat is Rockford. [2] Its name derives from a town of the Creek tribe and the Coosa River, which forms one of the county borders.