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1800

Pine Hill Earliest Settlers
The earliest settlers arrived in what is now the Pine Hill area in the early 1800's, starting a community known as Arnold, just north of the present intersection of Alabama Highways 5 and 10. The economic life of these community has almost totally depended on the timber and related service industries since Charles A. Sheldon, a Massachusetts lumberman first viewed the "pine clad hill." Subsequently the first post office established in 1839 was called Pine Hill, and Mr. Sheldon was the first postmaster.

When the Mobile and Birmingham Railroad (now Norfolk-Southern) was built in the early 1830's the town was moved about a mile south to a location on the railroad which offered the best site for a station and side tracks. Pine Hill became a timber and rail center when Vredenburgh Sawmill Company located there in 1993. A railroad was built from Pine Hill to Coxheath, about 26 miles to the west. The junctions of these railroads prompted considerable traffic by business men and "drummers," and the locations of as many as five hotels.

City: Perdido

County: Wilcox County

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