Five Points’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Five Points. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1885, Five Points was named because of the five roads converging at a single point. Before this, the post office was known as "Lystra". The town was incorporated in 1916, according to documents filed with the Probate Judge, making it Chambers County's oldest incorporated town. The Baptist Church was the first to take the name of "Five Points" on its building in 1929.
Five Points holds the distinction of being the first town of its size to receive electricity from Alabama Power in 1925. In order to receive power, citizens were required to erect their own poles from Stroud to White Plains.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Five Points’s history is told.
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Nothing in Five Points is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Five Points has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Ernest McCarty Oliver House in La Fayette, 6.2 miles away.
Five Points and the nearest listed places
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No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Five Points Alabama and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.