Piper, Alabama

Piper is an unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States.

Piper, Alabama
Piper, Alabama
Location within the state of Alabama
Piper, Alabama
Piper, Alabama (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°05′22″N 87°02′29″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyBibb
Elevation
509 ft (155 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID156903[1]

History

Piper was named for Oliver Hazzard Perry Piper, who founded the Little Cahaba Coal Company and was a business partner of Henry F. DeBardeleben.[2] The Little Cahaba Coal Company operated two mines at Piper.[3] Combined with nearby Coleanor, the two towns had a combined population of nearly 2,500.[4] Coal was shipped from Piper to Birmingham on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The last mine in Piper was closed in the 1950s.[5]

In February 1934, members of the United Mine Workers called a strike at the Piper mines. Governor Benjamin M. Miller called in the Alabama National Guard to maintain order.[6]

Six miners were killed in a mining accident in Piper on May 31, 1925.[7]

A post office operated under the name Piper from 1905 to 1955.[8]

Notable native

References

  1. "Piper". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. Alabama. Department of Archives and History (1923). Alabama Official and Statistical Register. Brown Printing Company. p. 489.
  4. "Piper/Coleanor". The Historical Marker Database. HMDB.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  5. Harris, W. Stuart. Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8-173-1125-4.
  6. James Sanders Day (24 June 2013). Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field. University of Alabama Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8173-1794-2.
  7. "Piper, AL Little Cahaba Coal Co Mine Accident, May 1925". GenDisasters.com. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  8. "Bibb County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  9. Brent Kelley (3 March 2005). Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations with 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960. McFarland. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7864-2279-1.


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