The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBroomtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Broomtown had a population of 160. It was named for Chief Broom (Broomstown) of the Cherokee Nation, whose people occupied the area from the late eighteenth century into the 1830s. The Cherokee had migrated southwest under pressure from European-American encroachment in Tennessee and North Carolina, before Indian Removal from the Southeast on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Fort Likens, a fort used to house soldiers during the Cherokee removal, was located near Broomtown.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 182 to 160 (-12%). Half of its homes were built before 1997.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Broomtown yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Broomtown’s history is told.
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Broomtown, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Broomtown is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Broomtown has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Sardis Baptist Church in Lyerly, 5.1 miles away.
Broomtown and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.