Freetown, Alabama | |
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  Freetown  Freetown | |
| Coordinates: 32°29′36″N 87°40′01″W / 32.49333°N 87.66694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Hale |
| Population | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Freetown is a former African American community near Gallion, in Hale County, Alabama, United States, in the so-called Canebrake region. Land and buildings formerly owned by a local slave-owning planter were left to both free and enslaved African Americans who had worked for him and lived with him, and the community lasted until the 1920s. A church built by that community in 1929 burned down in 2022.