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Farming For A Better Future, page 27
According to the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Liberty Cemetery was once associated with the Liberty Methodist Episcopal Church. The cemetery appears on the 1936 USGS/TVA topographic map east of a Liberty School nearer the intersection of current-day Allsboro and Buddy Durham roads. By 1951, the Liberty School is replaced with Liberty Church, now Liberty Missionary Baptist Church. The cemetery may be associated with this church and the church may have held a school in the 20th century.
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Listerhill
Listerhill is located east of Muscle Shoals along East 2nd Street. The area is less of a community than an industrial complex dominated Wise Alloys, formerly a Reynolds Metal Company plant. Listerhill is named for former U.S. Senator Joseph Lister Hill in honor of his
contributions to the completion of the metal plant. The original Reynolds plant produced aluminum for the production of airplanes for the military during World War II. During the war effort, public housing was often provided for workers in the vicinity of large plants. Even if the facility where the people worked employed both white and African American workers, the teams were often segregated and more than 75% of the public housing provided for the war workers was completely segregated. This was the case at Reynolds Metal plant at Listerhill.
Metal's Terrace*
The African American housing project for the Reynolds Metal Co. Plant was known officially as part of War Housing Project Ala 1213, but colloquially
(Below) 1936 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Listerhill,
Killen, Alabama Quadrangle (Right) 1953 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Listerhill, Killen, Alabama Quadrangle (Lower Right) 1971 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Listerhill, Killen, Alabama Quadrangle
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