Editing Atmore, Alabama (section)

==History==
Atmore was first recorded as a stop called Williams Station<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goldbug.com/ |title=SiteFind, v. 3.0, CD and free online versions available |website=The Gold Bug |last=Ettinger |first=Adrian B.}}</ref> on the [[Mobile and Great Northern Railroad]]. The town was originally to be named "Carney", in honor of a citizen who owned a sawmill in the town. Mr. Carney's brother had already established a town nearby with the same name, and Mr. Carney was allowed to name the town after his close friend C.P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent of the [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]]. Mr. Atmore never visited the town.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1900/05/30/archives/cp-atmore-drops-dead-was-general-passenger-agent-of-the-louisville.html C.P. ATMORE DROPS DEAD] ''C.P. ATMORE'' (retrieved August 16, 2010)</ref>

In 2008 the city of Atmore annexed [[Alabama Department of Corrections]] prison property, including [[Holman Correctional Facility]] and [[Fountain Correctional Facility]]. The Alabama DOC asked for the city to annex the land.<ref>{{cite web|last=Prestridge |first=Adam |url=https://www.atmoreadvance.com/2008/08/13/city-council-annexes-7000-acres/ |title=City council annexes 7,000 acres |newspaper=[[Atmore Advance]] |date=August 13, 2008 |accessdate=August 1, 2022}}</ref>