City of Lipscomb, Alabama

City of Lipscomb, Alabama. . S.W. Lipscomb, with his two brothers L.Y. and H.P., all from Epps, Alabama, settled here in 1885. L.Y. Lipscomb ran a general store on the old South Bessemer car line, which opened the 15 miles between Birmingham and Bessemer in 1890. This stop became known as Lipscomb Station. When the community of Wheeling incorporated on June 30, 1910, it was named Lipscomb for L.Y. Lipscomb. The community's many white-frame dwellings, with wide verandahs, set under stately groves of trees, testify to the prosperity of a small town that boomed in the 1910s next to, but separated from the mines and mills., Wheeling was located at the intersection of Woodward's spur track with the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, which connected Woodward's ore mines and blast furnaces. The town was called Wheeling for West Virginia's late 19th-century rolling mill district, where the Woodward family owned ironworks and a nail plant. Residents, supplied with water from a big spring, framed or worked in brickyards, furnaces or businesses in Bessemer or in the Woodward mines. Wheeling was incorporated into Lipscomb in the 1940s. Situated on the southern branch of the Huntsville Road, the site of Wheeling was settled in the 1830s. Vincent Loveless, son of pioneer settler John Loveless, who built the original portion of the William Sadler House, bought land from the Sadlers and, in 1832, established his farm in the area. In June 1834, Union Baptist Church was organized in a log structure on the site of the present church. Woodward Iron Company later gave land for a cemetery and for many years furnished water and heat for church buildings.