Editing Daleville, Alabama (section)

==History==
Daleville, originally known as "Dale's Court House", was founded in 1827 by veterans of the [[Creek War|Creek Indian War]] who had settled in Dale County following that conflict. It was established as the original [[county seat]] of Dale County in 1827 but lost that honor when [[Coffee County, Alabama|Coffee County]] split from Dale in 1841, at which time the seat was moved first to [[Newton, Alabama|Newton]], and then later to [[Ozark, Alabama|Ozark]] in 1870, where it remains today.

The name of Daleville was adopted in 1848. Daleville voted to incorporate in 1912, but rescinded it in 1916. It later voted for incorporation in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3222 |title=Daleville |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama}}</ref>

Residents of the town formed portions of two regiments of the [[Confederate States Army]] during the [[U.S. Civil War]]: the [[15th Regiment Alabama Infantry|15th Alabama Infantry]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thomaslegion.net/15thalabamainfantryregiment.html |title=15th Alabama Infantry Regiment |first=Matt |last=Parker |website=Thomas Legion |access-date=May 19, 2010}}</ref> famed for charging the [[20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment|20th Maine]] on [[Little Round Top]] during the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], and the [[33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry|33rd Alabama Infantry]].  In the latter regiment, Company "G", called the "Daleville Blues", was recruited entirely from Daleville.<ref name="usgennet1">{{cite web |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/al/county/barbour/CSA/33rd_alabama_co.htm |title=33rd Alabama Co. B |first=Margie |last=Daniels |website=Barbour County |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708051936/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/al/county/barbour/CSA/33rd_alabama_co.htm |archive-date=July 8, 2010}}</ref> Several men from this company were killed in a freak train derailment on November 4, 1862, near [[Cleveland, Tennessee]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/stri/historyculture/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=157391 |title=W.E. Mathews Preston Diary and Regimental History, SPR393, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History |website=National Park Service |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225031354/http://www.nps.gov/stri/historyculture/loader.cfm?csModule=security%2Fgetfile&PageID=157391 |archive-date=February 25, 2014}}</ref> the remainder would fight with the rest of the 33rd in the Confederate [[Army of Tennessee]] until the final surrender in 1865.

Long a tiny farming community, Daleville saw significant expansion during the mid-to-late twentieth century with the establishment and enlargement of [[Fort Novosel]], the [[U.S. Army]]'s primary [[aviation]] training post. Douglas Brown, a former mayor of Ozark, teamed up with two Georgia businessmen, L.C. Hall and Bob Culpepper, to develop the city. Securing a 1.5 million dollar loan, the trio purchased {{convert|400|acre|km2}} of land in Daleville, constructed a lagoon sewer system and began to build the town house by house, [[shopping center]] by shopping center.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dalevilleinn.com/about.html |title=Home |website=Daleville Inn |access-date=July 21, 2008}}</ref> Numerous military personnel then made their homes in the community, and many elected to stay after their [[retirement]] or otherwise completing their service obligation. This large military presence gives the town a more [[multiculturalism|cosmopolitan]] populace than other area towns farther away from the base.

Daleville was the victim of an [[Fujita scale|F1]] [[tornado]] on November 24, 2001, part of the [[November 23–24, 2001 tornado outbreak|Arkansas-Mississippi-Alabama tornado outbreak]] that occurred on November 23 and 24 of that year. Two restaurants and two industrial buildings were destroyed; a local lounge suffered severe damage as well. Also damaged were maintenance buildings, one aircraft, 25 businesses, a church, gas station, two supermarkets, a bank and several homes. 25 people inside the lounge were injured, but no fatalities were reported.