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Hale County

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Hale County

Administrative district in west-central Alabama; area 1,712 sq km/661 sq mi, population (1990) 15,500. Its seat is at Greensboro (population 3,000). The Black Warrior River forms its western boundary, while the Talladega National Forest lies in the northeast.

Hale County lies in rural hill country in the Black Belt region. It was the site of a 1936 sojourn by writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans that was recorded in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, their noted account of the lives of poor sharecroppers.



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