Piper, Alabama

Piper is an unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States.

Piper, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Piper, Alabama
Location within the state of Alabama
Piper, Alabama
Piper, Alabama (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°05′22″N 87°02′29″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyBibb
Elevation
509 ft (155 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID156903[1]

History

Piper was named for Oliver Hazzard Perry Piper, who founded the Little Cahaba Coal Company and was a business partner of Henry F. DeBardeleben.[2] The Little Cahaba Coal Company operated two mines at Piper.[3] Combined with nearby Coleanor, the two towns had a combined population of nearly 2,500.[4] Coal was shipped from Piper to Birmingham on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The last mine in Piper was closed in the 1950s.[5]

In February 1934, members of the United Mine Workers called a strike at the Piper mines. Governor Benjamin M. Miller called in the Alabama National Guard to maintain order.[6]

Six miners were killed in a mining accident in Piper on May 31, 1925.[7]

A post office operated under the name Piper from 1905 to 1955.[8]

Notable native

References
  1. "Piper". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. Alabama. Department of Archives and History (1923). Alabama Official and Statistical Register. Brown Printing Company. p. 489.
  4. "Piper/Coleanor". The Historical Marker Database. HMDB.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  5. Harris, W. Stuart. Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8-173-1125-4.
  6. James Sanders Day (24 June 2013). Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field. University of Alabama Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8173-1794-2.
  7. "Piper, AL Little Cahaba Coal Co Mine Accident, May 1925". GenDisasters.com. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  8. "Bibb County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  9. Brent Kelley (3 March 2005). Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations with 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960. McFarland. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7864-2279-1.


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