Lacey's Spring is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in northeastern Morgan County,

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, United States at the base of

Brindlee Mountain Brindley Mountain (or "Brindlee Mountain") is an isolated portion of the Appalachian Plateau in northern Alabama. It occupies significant portions of Cullman, Morgan, and Marshall Counties and extends into Winston and Lawrence counties. The ...

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's Land within Morgan County. The community was established by three Virginia-born brothers, Hopkins, John, and Theophilus Lacy. The community took on their name and became the site for a U.S. post office in February 1831. "Lacy's Spring" became "Lacey's Spring" when the postal seal furnished by Washington officials mistakenly inserted an "e" into the name.

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Unincorporated communities in Morgan County, Alabama Decatur metropolitan area, Alabama Huntsville-Decatur, AL Combined Statistical Area Unincorporated communities in Alabama Alabama populated places on the Tennessee River {{MorganCountyAL-geo-stub