35-481: Carrollton is the name of some places in the United States of America: Carrollton, Alabama Carrollton, Arkansas Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton, Illinois Carrollton, Carroll County, Indiana Carrollton, Hancock County, Indiana Carrollton, Kentucky Carrollton, Maryland , a former town now in the city of Baltimore Carrollton Manor ,
70-413: A burglary. He was captured in an arrest for the burglary, in which he was shot and wounded. Reportedly confessing to the courthouse arson (likely under coercion), he died five days later of his wounds. A myth associated his death with another lynching of an African-American man in this period, and an image, purportedly of Wells' face in a courthouse window. But while numerous African Americans were lynched in
105-488: A female householder with no husband present, and 28.40% were non-families. Nearly 26.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56, and the average family size was 3.11. In the county, the population was spread out, with 27.30% under the age of 18, 8.50% from 18 to 24, 25.80% from 25 to 44, 22.80% from 45 to 64, and 15.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
140-569: A judge to 60 months in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections. In 2019, Sheriff David Abston resigned as part of a plea deal with federal officials. He pleaded guilty to scamming a local food bank and his own church for food to feed county prisoners. He then was able to pocket the savings. Abston had served in the office for more than thirty years. According to the United States Census Bureau ,
175-527: A mill and cotton gin owned by a white man. Their lynchings followed that of Joe Floyd, another African-American worker, two weeks before. On August 28, 1907, African-American John Gibson was lynched in Carrollton, hanged to death in the courthouse square. John Lipsep was hanged and shot in early September 1907, a suspect in an attack on a white woman. From 1940 to 1970, many African Americans left Pickens County to escape racial violence and oppression in
210-587: A study of lynchings of African Americans in the United States, the county had 14 documented lynchings of African Americans in Pickens County from 1877 to 1917; this is the fifth-highest total in the state. This was the period of Jim Crow and disenfranchisement of blacks throughout Alabama and the South. Henry Wells, an African American , was arrested in January 1878 as a suspect in the courthouse arson and
245-816: A tract of land in Frederick County, Maryland, from which a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, took his name Carrollton, Mississippi Carrollton, Missouri Carrollton, New Orleans , a former town now in the city New Orleans, Louisiana Carrollton, New York Carrollton, Ohio Carrollton, Texas , the largest city of this name in the United States Carrollton, Virginia New Carrollton, Maryland Other [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Carrollton All pages with titles containing Carrollton Carrollton, Kentucky bus collision Carrollton School of
280-502: Is a county located on the west central border of the U.S. state of Alabama . As of the 2020 census , the population was 19,123. Its county seat is Carrollton , located in the center of the county. It is a prohibition, or dry county , although the communities of Carrollton and Aliceville voted to become wet in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Pickens County is included in the Tuscaloosa , AL Metropolitan Statistical Area Like
315-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Carrollton, Alabama Carrollton is a city in and the county seat of Pickens County , Alabama , United States. At the 2010 census the population was 1,019, up from 987 in 2000. The Pickens County Courthouse in the center of Carrollton was erected in 1877. The first courthouse in Carrollton
350-474: The Great Migration to urban areas, as did other rural residents, because of lack of economic opportunity. On April 8, 1998, a supercell thunderstorm produced an F3 tornado in Pickens County. This windstorm injured two people and damaged five homes including mobile homes. It rotated seventeen miles (27 km) from Holman to north of Northport. Twenty-four homes and thirteen mobile homes were also in
385-582: The U.S. Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km ), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km ) (0.96%) is water. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 1,023 people, 353 households, and 218 families residing in the town. As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 1,019 people living in the town. 49.0% were White , 43.1% African American , 0.1% Native American , 3.6% from some other race and 4.2% of two or more races . 10.4% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. As of
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#1732765763339420-406: The census of 2000, there were 987 people, 384 households, and 279 families living in the town. The population density was 479.1 inhabitants per square mile (185.0/km ). There were 437 housing units at an average density of 212.1 per square mile (81.9/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 53.39% White , 44.58% Black or African American , 0.10% Asian , and 1.93% from two or more races. 0.41% of
455-460: The convict lease system that trapped so many African Americans in near-slavery conditions. Electoral unrest and populist furor in the county may have contributed to six lynchings in Carrollton in the fall of 1893. On September 14, 1893, African-American suspects Paul Archer, Will Archer, Emma Fair, Ed Guyton, and Paul Hill, were each shot to death in a mass lynching by a white mob at the courthouse jail. They had been arrested when accused of burning
490-657: The 20th century. Among the numerous African Americans lynched in Carrollton was John Gibson, hanged on August 28, 1907. Pickens County had the fifth highest total of lynchings in Alabama, according to Lynching in America (2015, 3rd edition), published by the Equal Justice Initiative . Carrollton is located at 33°15′39″N 88°5′40″W / 33.26083°N 88.09444°W / 33.26083; -88.09444 (33.260858, -88.094452). According to
525-560: The Sacred Heart , an independent Catholic girls' school in Miami, Florida Carrollton (band) Carrollton (name) "Carrollton" (song) , a song by Suicideboys See also [ edit ] Carroll (disambiguation) , various places Carrolltown, Pennsylvania Carrollton Historic District (disambiguation) Carrollton Township (disambiguation) Carrolton Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota Topics referred to by
560-820: The area can attend Carrollton Elementary School for Grades K-6. Carrollton is also the home of the Pickens County Educational Center, a branch of Bevill State Community College . Below are photographs taken in Carrollton as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey conducted during the Great Depression to document the buildings across the US: 33°15′39″N 88°05′40″W / 33.260858°N 88.094452°W / 33.260858; -88.094452 Pickens County, Alabama Pickens County
595-522: The county has a total area of 890 square miles (2,300 km ), of which 881 square miles (2,280 km ) is land and 8.7 square miles (23 km ) (1.0%) is water. The county is between Tuscaloosa County and the Alabama-Mississippi state line. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 19,123 people, 7,637 households, and 5,074 families residing in the county. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 19,746 people in
630-399: The county jail was located at the courthouse. The courthouse square was used frequently as a site for public lynchings by whites of African Americans, part of numerous efforts to suppress them during a time of high tensions as whites struggled for dominance. It was part of a program of intimidation and racial terrorism , with these murders frequent in the decades on either side of the turn of
665-413: The county was 55.95% White , 42.96% Black or African American , 0.12% Native American , 0.11% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 0.22% from other races , and 0.63% from two or more races. About 0.70% of the population were Hispanic or Latino . There were 8,086 households, out of which 32.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.80% were married couples living together, 18.20% had
700-493: The county was developed for cotton plantations, which were worked by enslaved African-Americans brought south by northern businessmen interested in cheap cotton. These plantations were developed primarily in the southernmost reaches of the county, in the lowlands along the banks of the Tombigbee River and stretching over a small prairie-like area. The rest of the county was settled by yeomen farmers who held few slaves; it
735-527: The county. 56.3% were White , 41.6% Black or African American , 0.2% Asian , 0.1% Native American , 0.6% of some other race and 1.2% of two or more races . 1.6% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). As of the census of 2000, there were 20,949 people, 8,086 households, and 5,789 families residing in the county. The population density was 24 people per square mile (9.3 people/km ). There were 9,520 housing units at an average density of 11 units per square mile (4.2 units/km ). The racial makeup of
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#1732765763339770-509: The courthouse square, the windows in the courthouse were not installed until February and March 1878. In the late 19th century, there was strong hostility in Pickens County among yeomen whites against freedmen, and they committed numerous lynchings into the early 20th century. The county was a populist stronghold in the 1890s and many voters had joined the Farmers Alliance . Agricultural commissioner and populist choice Reuben F. Kolb
805-512: The fourth-fastest growing county with at least 10,000 inhabitants. In 2014 it became the fastest-growing county in Alabama. But part of the growth was the result of the construction here of the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville federal women's prison. Prisoners are included in local census numbers, as are prison employees, some of whom came from other counties. In 2016, Black disabled veteran Sean Worsley
840-468: The last months of the Reconstruction era. Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878, after white Democrats had regained control of the state legislature and the county sheriff's office. White racial hostility toward African Americans in the county, and their efforts to retain dominance, resulted in numerous lynchings. According to the third edition of Lynching in America ,
875-488: The path of destruction. Moments later, that same supercell thunderstorm produced an F5 tornado that struck northeastern Tuscaloosa near the Black Warrior River before entering western Jefferson County where it destroyed Oak Grove High School and killed thirty-two people in its path. From 2000 to 2013 the county was again losing population. From July 2013 to July 2014, the population grew by 5.1%, making it
910-434: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 384 households, out of which 35.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.1% were married couples living together, 28.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.3% were non-families. 25.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
945-460: The rest of Alabama, this had long been occupied by Native Americans; historically the Muscogee people (Creek) dominated this area. Pickens County was established on the western border of Alabama on December 20, 1820, and named for revolutionary war hero General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina . The county seat was relocated from Pickensville to Carrollton in 1830. Less than one-third of
980-456: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Carrollton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrollton&oldid=1231719334 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1015-418: The town was $ 24,318, and the median income for a family was $ 29,612. Males had a median income of $ 30,833 versus $ 18,333 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 12,153. About 31.4% of families and 38.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 56.9% of those under age 18 and 26.1% of those age 65 or over. The Pickens County Board of Education is located in Carrollton. Students in
1050-408: Was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.07. In the town, the population was spread out, with 29.4% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 77.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 65.2 males. The median income for a household in
1085-416: Was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.30 males. The median income for a household in the county was $ 26,254, and the median income for a family was $ 32,938. Males had a median income of $ 28,843 versus $ 20,569 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 13,746. About 20.10% of families and 24.90% of the population were below
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1120-543: Was arrested in Pickens County for possession of prescription medical marijuana by Police Officer Carl Abramo of the Gordo Police Department. Worsley was arrested after stopping at a gas station when Abramo allegedly heard loud music and "observed a black male get out of the passenger side vehicle". In 2020, Mr. Worsley was extradited from his home state in Arizona to Pickens County, where he was sentenced by
1155-464: Was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of Union General John T. Croxton . A second courthouse was destroyed by a fire on November 16, 1876. Incorporated in 1831, the town was named after Charles Carroll of Carrollton , Maryland , the only Roman Catholic and longest-living signer of the Declaration of Independence. A post office has been in operation at Carrollton since 1831. As was typical,
1190-638: Was defeated in 1890 for the Democratic nomination for governor by Thomas G. Jones , chosen by delegates who joined to defeat Kolb. In 1892 both ran again, Kolb representing Jeffersonian Democrats , and Kolb the main Democratic Party. Kolb won in Pickens County by "an immense majority". Governor Jones was re-elected, in part because of his reliance on a platform of white supremacy , to appeal to whites alarmed by Kolb's promising to protect African-American rights. But Jones supported reform, opposing
1225-469: Was topographically unsuited for plantation-scale farming operations. During the American Civil War, the first courthouse in Carrollton was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of Union General John T. Croxton . Recovering from that and other damage was part of the postwar work for the county. A second courthouse was built in Carrollton. It was destroyed by fire on November 16, 1876, during
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