About Livingston, Alabama

Livingston is a city of 3,436 people and the seat of Sumter County, in west-central Alabama on the Sucarnoochee River. This was Choctaw land until September 27, 1830, when it passed to the United States under the Dancing Rabbit Creek treaty, and settlers soon moved in, most of them from North Carolina. In 1833 a commission organized Sumter County and picked Livingston as its seat. The town was named for the statesman and jurist Edward Livingston.

Water decided where the first families lived. With no supply close at hand, most of them built near the natural springs along what is now Spring Street, until an artesian well on Courthouse Square, the Bored Well, gave the town water of its own. For much of the late nineteenth century, visitors came to drink from it for their health, and promoters raised a Chinese-styled pagoda over it. In 1924 the pagoda gave way to the forerunner of today's pavilion.

“This well was bored by an old blind mule that pulled an auger around until an artesian aquifer was reached in 1857.”
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  • A courthouse rebuilt in 1902Sumter County's first courthouse was a log building at Spring and Chapman Streets, now West Main. A frame courthouse replaced it in 1839 and stood until fire destroyed it in 1901. Only the probate judge's office came through, and it now holds the county commission office. The foundation of the present building was laid on July 9, 1902, and the Sumter County Courthouse joined the National Register in 1972.
  • Julia Tutwiler's schoolLivingston Female Academy opened on July 4, 1835. Julia S. Tutwiler, an educator, prison reformer and champion of schooling for women, became assistant president in 1881 and renamed it Livingston Normal School in 1886, when it trained teachers for Alabama's public schools. She lived at Lakewood, an 1840 mansion, while she led the school, and retired as president emeritus in 1910. The school grew into the University of West Alabama.
  • Sam Houston came callingMatthew C. Houston, one of the town's founders and among its first storekeepers, built a house here around 1835 with a rare Anglo-Palladian front split into window, door and window. His cousin Sam Houston visited in 1845. Adolph Brown, who opened Livingston's first bank with his brother, later lived in it, and Charles C. Bailey owned it from the 1940s until 1975. A marker at 100 North Washington Street shows where it stood.
  • A covered bridge from 1861In 1861 a covered bridge went up over the Sucarnoochee River, and in 1969 it was moved to the university campus. Cedarwood, a rare wood-framed house from 1818, was brought there from Greensboro. Every year the Sucarnochee Folklife Festival fills the town with pottery and quilting, storytelling and live music, a 5K run and a cornbread cook-off.
  • All American finalist in 1972By the early 1960s Livingston was a quiet county seat that was losing people, so residents set out to revive it around its historic buildings and main street. The population nearly doubled within ten years as new industry and businesses arrived, and in 1972 The Saturday Evening Post's All American Cities Competition named Livingston a finalist.

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Names on the Livingston map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks3

  • Jaycee Park
  • Tartt Field
  • Stuart Trailer Park

Streets and roads75

  • North Washington Street
  • North Street
  • Lafayette Street
  • Doctor Martin Luther King Highway
  • Washington Street
  • Highway 11
  • Holliday Circle
  • Carl Turk 12
  • Eastview Drive
  • Hopkins Street
  • University Drive
  • Country Club Road
  • Pickens Street
  • Student Union Drive
  • Arrington Street
  • Bennett 13 Road
  • Lake Drive
  • Prystup Drive
  • Highland Drive
  • Daryle Street
  • McDowell Industrial Park Road
  • Tulip Street
  • Jefferson Street
  • River Bend Road
  • Whitfield Avenue
  • Willow Street
  • Klondike Road
  • East Park Road
  • Monroe Street
  • Forrest Drive
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  • Magnolia Street
  • South Street
  • Madison Street
  • West Main Street
  • Church Street
  • Tke House Road
  • Thomas Avenue
  • Council Road
  • Lee Street
  • Sumter Avenue
  • Seale Drive
  • Puzack Lane
  • McKee Street
  • Bell Avenue
  • Willow Drive
  • Palm Street
  • Bell Street
  • Highway 28 West
  • Grean Street
  • Northside Vlg
  • Parkway Drive
  • Morgan Drive
  • Maple Circle
  • Johnson Street
  • Jemison Street
  • Longstreet Drive
  • Industrial Street
  • Tucker Drive
  • Nobel Street
  • Ash Street
  • Convict Camp Road
  • Dogwood Street
  • Astrid Street
  • Upson Street
  • Sycamore Street
  • Tuxedo Street
  • Burkroe Place
  • North Hill Street
  • Tower Road
  • Tiger Stadium Drive
  • Shady Heights Drive
  • Pratt Street
  • Yellow Creek Road
  • Foust Drive
  • Wood Circle

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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