Mount Meigs (also Evansville or Mount Pleasant) is an

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in Montgomery County in the

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. The Mount Meigs Campus, a juvenile correctional facility and the headquarters of the Alabama Department of Youth Services, is in Mount Meigs. Mount Meigs is located at .

History

Georgia Washington established what became known as the People’s Village School and later the Georgia Washington School. The area's major export in the mid-19th century to 1940 was

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. Cook Station and Mount Meigs Station were two main stations in the region. During World War II they switched to hauling gravel.

Government and infrastructure

Kilby Correctional Facility Mt Meigs Alabama

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) operates the Kilby Correctional Facility in Mount Meigs. Kilby serves as receiving and processing center for all male Alabama state inmates. The Montgomery Women's Facility, an ADOC facility for women, is located behind Kilby. The Mount Meigs Campus, a juvenile correctional facility and the headquarters of the Alabama Department of Youth Services, which operates the campus, is in Mount Meigs. The campus, historically named the Alabama Industrial School, opened in 1911 as the "Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law-Breakers", was changed to the "Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children" in 1947, and became the Alabama Industrial School in 1970. The

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operates the Mount Meigs Post Office.

Demographics

In July, 2007 the Mount Meigs area population was 5,564.

Education

Georgia Washington Junior High School Mount Meigs Alabama

The

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district formerly operated Georgia Washington Middle School in Mount Meigs. It is now Pike Road High School. In 1893 a woman named Georgia Washington, a former slave, arrived in Mount Meigs to start a school. By October of that year she opened a public school in her by rented cabin. It later moved to the Antioch Baptist Church. By February 1894 the residents bought a plot of land and built an by schoolhouse. By 1916 the Peoples Village School occupied a two-story schoolhouse. The current Georgia Washington School opened in 1950. Washington died in 1952, and the school occupying what was the Peoples Village School was renamed after her. In 1974 the school was converted into a middle school. A new wing at Washington Middle opened in 2004.

Notable residents

J. Marion Sims James Marion Sims (January 25, 1813November 13, 1883) was an American physician in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstruc ...

, physician. In a letter of 1836, Sims described the town as "nothing bur a pile of gin-houses, stables, blacksmith-shops,

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-shops, taverns and stores, thrown together in one promiscuous huddle". *

Fred Shuttlesworth Frederick Lee Shuttlesworth (born Fred Lee Robinson, March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011) was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder o ...

, civil rights activist; born in Mount Meigs * Vernon H. Vaughan, Governor of

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Gallery

File:Mount Meigs Alabama Post Office.JPG, Mount Meigs Post Office ( ZIP Code: 36057) File:Mount Meigs Campus Alabama DYS 2.JPG, Mount Meigs Campus

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Alabama