Summerfield, Alabama
Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States
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Summerfield, also known as Valley Creek, is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama.[2] Summerfield has one historic district included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Summerfield District.[3] Most of the community was annexed into Valley Grande following its incorporation as a city in 2003.[4] Summerfield was the home of the Centenary Institute, a school operated by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1829 until the 1880s.
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Notable people
- James Osgood Andrew, bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, resided here during the American Civil War
- Robert Kennon Hargrove, lived here while president of Centenary Institute from 1865 to 1867
- Richard H. Rivers, lived here while president of Centenary Institute
