Rose_Hill,_Alabama

Rose Hill, Alabama

Rose Hill, Alabama

Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

Rose Hill is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.

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History

The community name may come from a personal name or an environmental name.[2] A post office operated under the name Rose Hill from 1855 to 1906.[3]

Company F of the 33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry was organized at Brandon's Store in Rose Hill.[4]

Notable People

Matthew Hammett, American politician born in Rose Hill[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Rose Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. [2]
    Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. [3]
    "Covington County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  4. [4]
    William Morel Moxley; Emily Moxley; Thomas William Cutrer (2002). Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley. University of Alabama Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8173-1118-6.
  5. [5]
    "Matthew Hammett". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 24, 2023.


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