About Union Springs, Alabama

Union Springs is a city of 3,358 people in Alabama's Black Belt. Settlers moved in after the Creek removal of the 1830s, and in 1836 families such as the Normans, Powells and Fosters made homes here. They named the town for the 27 springs that flow from Chunnenuggee Ridge, where the Conecuh River begins. The town was incorporated on January 13, 1844, while it still belonged to Macon County. When Bullock County was formed in 1866, voters made Union Springs its seat.

Cotton made the town wealthy before the Civil War. It had no river for shipping, so planters sent their crops to market in Columbus, Georgia, on the Mobile and Girard Railway, and cotton barons built mansions along the ridge. The war left most of the town standing, but Reconstruction and Emancipation brought hard years. By 1885 Union Springs had recovered as the junction of two railroads, with an oil mill and a planing mill, and cotton mills soon followed.

  • A garden club from 1847Dr. Norborne Berkley Powell reached Alabama in 1838 and bought several thousand acres on the ridge the Creeks called TCHA-NA-NAGHI, meaning long, high ridge. He deeded land for a public garden for $1.00. On March 6, 1847, local gardeners formed the Chunnenuggee Ridge Horticultural Society and planted five acres of rare fruits, flowers and shrubs that same year, with a circular garden house and a shrub maze called the Lover's Knot.
  • Bird dogs on Maytag's landBy the 1920s, game preserves had taken over many old cotton plantations around Union Springs. Lewis B. Maytag, the hunter behind the Maytag appliance line, put together the 14,000-acre Sedgefields Plantation, and the land became a favorite place for bird dog field trials. The trials still run every year from October to March, drawing handlers from around the country to see how well their dogs point out hidden game birds.
  • Virginia Foster Durr's childhood homeOne of the mansions cotton barons built on the ridge was the Foster-Chapman House, put up in 1843 in the Moorish Revival style. The civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr grew up in it.
  • From church to theaterTrinity Episcopal Church had seventeen communicants in 1925 and fewer than eleven by 1993. The diocese gave the building to the city in exchange for two acres of donated land, and it was deconsecrated on August 28, 2002. Renamed the Red Door Theater, it opened with a reading of Conecuh People, a play about Bullock County lives that was staged four times in April 2004.
  • Bonnie Plants, since 1918Bonnie Plants started in Union Springs in 1918. It became the biggest company in the country raising vegetable and herb plants in pots, and it now runs facilities in all 50 states. Its revenue topped $250 million by 2020, and it remains a major employer in the city.

Find your street

Names on the Union Springs 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.

Streets and roads101

  • Martin Luther King Boulevard
  • Blackmon Avenue
  • Baskin Street
  • Conecuh Avenue East
  • Conecuh Avenue West
  • Sardis Road
  • Branwood Drive
  • Highway 82
  • Prairie Street South
  • Prairie Street North
  • Conecuh Avenue
  • Grove Circle
  • Peachburg Road
  • Hardaway Avenue
  • Hicks Industrial Park Boulevard
  • Johnson Street
  • Country Club Drive
  • March Street
  • Thomas Street
  • Kennon Street
  • Holcombe Street
  • Tye Avenue
  • Bloomfield Street
  • Abby Avenue
  • Owens Street
  • Hill and Dale Drive
  • West Locke Avenue
  • Chunnenuggee Avenue
  • Plant Road
  • South Parker Street
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  • Waugh Street
  • Hicks Industrial Boulevard
  • Seale Avenue
  • Abercrombie Street
  • Ellis Street
  • Bernard Street
  • Happy Hollow Drive
  • Levy Avenue
  • Percy Street
  • Underwood Road
  • Pittman Drive
  • Mimosa Drive
  • Boulevard Drive
  • Pascal Avenue
  • Holcombe Avenue
  • Lee Street
  • Gibson Road
  • Montgomery Street
  • Rayfield Street
  • Sorrell Road
  • Brown Street
  • Hicks
  • Francis Street
  • Edwards Road
  • James Street
  • East Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Priori Lane
  • Dean
  • Sixth Street
  • Martin Luther King Boulevard South
  • Martin Luther King Boulevard North
  • Southern Springs Road
  • Powell Street
  • South Powell Street
  • Brunson Street
  • Cemetery Street
  • Hill and Dale Road
  • Hunter Avenue
  • Gibson Circle
  • Fairview Drive
  • Washington Street
  • Sunset Strip Road
  • Hill & Dale Road
  • Cooper Street
  • Bluff Circle
  • Lynch Street
  • Locke Avenue
  • Pascal Street
  • Hill Avenue
  • Thompson Street
  • Greenwood Avenue
  • Whp Avenue
  • Omer Gibson Road
  • Adams Ridge
  • Joan's Ridge
  • Reeney Street
  • Moon Avenue
  • Hanson Street
  • May Street
  • Miles Avenue
  • Greenwood Street
  • Highland Avenue
  • Welch Avenue
  • North Powell Street
  • Pecan Lane
  • Locke Terrace Court
  • Melissa Lane
  • Owen Court
  • Henry Street
  • Herrin Avenue

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