Beaver Mills, Alabama
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Beaver Mills, also known as Beaver Meadow, is a
ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in
Mobile County Mobile County ( ) is a county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the third-most populous county in the state after Jefferson and Madison counties. As of the 2020 census, its population was 414,809. Its co ...
,
Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...
, United States, near
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, south of
Citronelle Citronelle is a city on the northern border of Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 3,946. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area a ...
. It was the site of a paper mill that was also used as a uniform depot during the
American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
. A post office operated under the name Beaver Meadow from 1890 to 1906.


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Beaver Mills
at Ghosttowns.com
Alabama Ghost Towns
DigitalAlabama.com
Front view of the residence of Colonel E. M. Hudson at Beaver Meadow, Alabama in 1895Side view of the residence of Colonel E. M. Hudson at Beaver Meadow, Alabama in 1895Loading produce into a M&O Railroad boxcar at Beaver Meadow in 1895
Ghost towns in Alabama Populated places in Mobile County, Alabama {{US-ghost-town-stub