Rutledge, Alabama
Rutledge is a town in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 467. Geography Rutledge is located at the geographic center of Crenshaw County at (31.733103, -86.309619). The city of Luverne, the Crenshaw County seat, lies along Rutledge's eastern border. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. History Rutledge began as Barber's Crossroads. It was originally settled by Jared Phelps Barber. The town was briefly named Crenshaw, but on June 10, 1867, it was changed to Rutledge in honor of Captain Henry Rutledge, Company H. 59th Alabama Infantry, CSA. Rutledge was the first county seat of Crenshaw County and held that position from March 1867 to May 1893. It was incorporated in 1871. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 476 people, 201 households, and 127 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 264 housing units at an average density of . The rac ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German language, German word , the Dutch language, Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh language, Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fort ...
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