Rose Hill, Alabama

Rose Hill, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Rose Hill, Alabama
Rose Hill, Alabama
Coordinates: 31°26′58″N 86°20′22″W / 31.44944°N 86.33944°W / 31.44944; -86.33944Coordinates: 31°26′58″N 86°20′22″W / 31.44944°N 86.33944°W / 31.44944; -86.33944
Country United States
State Alabama
County Covington
Elevation 433 ft (132 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 334
GNIS feature ID 125934[1]

Rose Hill, also spelled Rosehill, is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.

History

The community name may come from a personal name or an environmental name.[2] A post office operated under the name Rose Hill from 1855 to 1906.[3]

Company F of the 33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry was organized at Brandon's Store in Rose Hill.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Rose Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. ↑ "Covington County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ↑ William Morel Moxley; Emily Moxley; Thomas William Cutrer (2002). Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley. University of Alabama Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8173-1118-6.


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