Grove Oak is a small

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, United States. It is located atop Sand Mountain in northeastern Alabama. Grove Oak has one store, and is surrounded by forests and farmland. There are two

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churches. There is a small Masonic lodge and a now-closed junior high school. It also has a restaurant that has been in and out of business several times. Until about the mid-1970s, it was the center of a

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community and had its own

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. Today, farming is not so much the focus, and most working members of the Grove Oak community drive to factories or other jobs in the larger towns nearby. Limited farming, cattle, and poultry raising takes place in and around the town.

Geography

Grove Oak is located at . Its average

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is above

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Notable persons

Albert Rains Albert McKinley Rains (March 11, 1902 – March 22, 1991) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Alabama. Born in Grove Oak, Alabama, Rains attended the public schools, Snead Seminary, Boaz, Alabama, State Tea ...

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from 1945 to 1965

References

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