Mantua, Alabama

Mantua is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Alabama, United States.

Mantua, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Former Mantua post office
Mantua
Mantua
Coordinates: 33°03′13″N 87°55′44″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyGreene
Elevation
246 ft (75 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID156654[1]

History

Mantua was most likely named for Mantua, Italy.[2] Settlers came to the area in the early 1800s from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mantua was originally in Pickens County, but residents petitioned for it to become part of Greene County in the 1860s.[3] A post office operated under the name Mantua from 1880 to 1989.[4]

gollark: There was a government program to fund fibre connectivity, but it doesn't seem to have worked well.
gollark: A lot of developed countries seem to have issues like this because the old stuff technically works and has tons of inertia and regulatory nonsense and nobody cares enough to replace it, but developing ones which didn't have big telephone networks or whatever presumably just installed fibre and did fine.
gollark: The UK isn't very good at infrastructure.
gollark: Yes, I'll just manually lay fibre to the nearest internet exchange.
gollark: Or G.fast occasionally.

References
  1. "Mantua". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. "Mantua Precinct". AL Gen Web. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. "Tuscaloosa County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 December 2015.



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