Aigleville, Alabama | |
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 Parisian engraving from 1819 of the building of the Aigleville settlement, directed by General Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes. Note the erroneous inclusion of palm trees, which are not found in central Alabama. | |
  Aigleville Location within the state of Alabama | |
| Coordinates: 32°31′00″N 87°49′24″W / 32.51664°N 87.82329°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Marengo |
| Elevation | 161 ft (49 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 36732 |
| Area code | 334 |
Aigleville, literally translated as Eagle Town, was a town on the Black Warrior River in Marengo County, Alabama, United States that is now a ghost town.[1] The settlement was established in late 1818 by former French Bonapartists and refugees from Saint-Domingue, as a part of their Vine and Olive Colony. It was named in honor of the French Imperial Eagle, the standard used by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I,[2] and is now within the city of Demopolis.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Aigleville (historical)
- ^ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 0-8173-1125-4.