Plantersville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Dallas County,

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, United States. It lies near the county's border with

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and Chilton counties. Plantersville was named for the local

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planters and

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s. The town is home to Dallas County High School and J. E. Terry Elementary School.

History

The original name of the town was Corinth. The post office was established in 1867. After the Civil War

Battle of Ebenezer Church The Battle of Ebenezer Church was fought in Stanton, Alabama near Plantersville, Alabama between Union Army cavalry under Brigadier General and Brevet Major General of volunteers James H. Wilson and Confederate States Army cavalry under ...

(April 1, 1865), Union troops burned the railroad depot at Plantersville and a cotton warehouse. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson's troops spent the night camped in Plantersville, then on to the

Battle of Selma The Battle of Selma was fought on April 2, 1865 in Dallas County, Alabama during the American Civil War. It was part of the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the Civil War. Brevet ...

the next day. Provisional governor Lewis E. Parsons, later describing the horrors of the war, said that "indeed, after three weeks had elapsed, it was with difficulty you could travel the road from Plantersville to that city (i.e. Selma), so offensive was the atmosphere, in consequence of decaying horses and mules that lay along the road-side. Every description of ruin, except the interred dead of the human family, met the eye. I witnessed it myself. The fact is, that no description can equal the reality." Pickering's Grocery Store has been replaced by a gas station and convenience store.

References

Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Dallas County, Alabama Populated places established in 1867 {{DallasCountyAL-geo-stub