Editing Faunsdale, Alabama (section)

==History==
A post office called Faunsdale has been in operation since 1841.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Marengo | title=Marengo County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=October 28, 2015}}</ref> The town was named for nearby [[Faunsdale Plantation]], named after a Roman god and owned since 1843 by Dr. Thomas Alexander Harrison. The town was named in his honor.

The plantation had been founded in the 1830s by Messrs Pearson and [[Henry Augustine Tayloe]]. The latter was also the local land agent for his older brothers [[Benjamin Ogle Tayloe]], [[William Henry Tayloe]], [[Edward Thornton Tayloe]], and [[George Plater Tayloe]], who all invested some of their great wealth in several plantations in this area. A 20th-century historian said they were "considered the most important pioneer cotton planters of the Canebrake, as to the extent of their enterprise there."<ref>JW Dubose, "Chronicles of the Canebrake," ''Alabama Historical Quarterly,'' Winter 1947, p.492</ref><ref name="marengoher">Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: ''The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama'', pages 17-18. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. {{ISBN|1-891647-58-X}}</ref>

Faunsdale was incorporated as a town in 1907.<ref name="Democrat-Reporter">{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9JE1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=oxMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3029%2C608370 | title=French colonists settled Linden when it became county seat | publisher=The Democrat-Reporter | work=Sep 21, 2006 | date=September 21, 2006 | access-date=October 28, 2015 | author=Jones, Joel D. | pages=2}}</ref>