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Attalla was not founded until 1870; it was established on land donated by W. C. Hammond, a plantation owner. It was incorporated as a city government on February 5, 1872. The town was officially named "Attalla" in 1893, derived from the Cherokee language word otali meaning "mountain". [5] [6] Railroads served the town and connected it to other ...
The Attalla Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Attalla, Alabama. The city was founded in 1870 along the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad. It quickly developed into a major iron ore export hub. After fires in 1887 and 1891, most of the frame buildings downtown were replaced with brick structures.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
State Route 77 (SR 77) is a 124-mile-long (200 km) north–south state highway in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with U.S. Route 431 (US 431) near LaFayette. The northern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with US 431 just north of Attalla.
U.S. Route 11 (US 11) runs southwest to northeast across northcentral Alabama for 250.671 miles (403.416 km).It enters the state from Mississippi concurrent with US 80 and exits into Georgia east of Sulphur Springs.
Etowah High School (EHS) is a public high school in Attalla, Alabama, United States.It is part of the Attalla City Schools district.. In 1959 the school had 43 teachers for 1,266 students, a situation Mrs. Clark Mynatt of the Etowah News-Journal described as a "bad situation of overcrowding".
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