Chapman is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama, United States. Chapman is located on County Route 37, 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west-northwest of Georgiana.[2] Chapman has a post office with ZIP code 36015.[3]
History
Chapman is located on the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was founded as a lumber town. It was the headquarters of the W. T. Smith Lumber Company, one of the oldest lumber firms in Alabama.[4] At one point, Chapman contained three sawmills, a veneer mill, a box factory, two barrel factories, and forty-four company houses.[5] The W. T. Smith Company sponsored baseball teams for both white and black workers. Uniforms were provided for both teams, and they were given two-week vacations to play in summer baseball tournaments.[6]
Demographics
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 1,142 | — | |
| 1930 | 1,189 | 4.1% | |
| 1940 | 1,167 | −1.9% | |
| 1950 | 943 | −19.2% | |
| 1960 | 617 | −34.6% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[7] | |||
References
- ^ "Chapman". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Butler County, Alabama General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Alabama Department of Transportation. 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2012.[dead link]
- ^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ James E. Fickle (February 28, 2014). Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries. University of Alabama Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8173-1813-0.
- ^ Wayne Flynt (October 10, 2004). Alabama in the Twentieth Century. University of Alabama Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8173-1430-9.
- ^ William Powell Jones (2005). The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-252-02979-0.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
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