Coatopa is an

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History

Coatopa was founded in 1847 by J. R. Larkins and was located on the

East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad (ETV&G) was a rail transport system that operated in the southeastern United States during the late 19th century. Created with the consolidation of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and th ...

. The name Coatopa is derived from the

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

words ''koi'' meaning "panther," ''a'' meaning "there," and ''hotupa'' meaning "wounded." A post office operated under the name Coatopa from 1866 to 1986.

Notable person

* Kelly Mitchell, Queen of the Gypsy Nation, died in Coatopa in 1915

References

Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Sumter County, Alabama Populated places established in 1847 1847 establishments in Alabama Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{SumterCountyAL-geo-stub