Claiborne, Monroe County, shown here in the 1850s. The town was a bustling commercial center prior to the Civil War but was largely abandoned by the turn of the twentieth century as rail lines bypassed it.
Claiborne, 1850s
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Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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