Editing Five Points, Alabama (section)

==History==
In 1885, Five Points was named because of the five roads converging at a single point. Before this, the post office was known as "Lystra". The town was incorporated in 1915, making it Chambers County's oldest incorporated town. The Baptist Church was the first to take the name of "Five Points" on its building in 1929.

Five Points holds the distinction of being the first town of its size to receive electricity from [[Alabama Power]] in 1925. In order to receive power, citizens were required to erect their own poles from [[Stroud, Alabama|Stroud]] to [[White Plains, Chambers County, Alabama|White Plains]].<ref name="Five Points, Alabama: Town of Five">{{Citation|title=Small Town Historic Markers |publisher=Alabama Tourism Department |url=http://www.alabama.travel/homecoming/ |accessdate=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203101446/http://www.alabama.travel/homecoming/ |archivedate=February 3, 2011 }}</ref>

Five Points is home to the first consolidated high school in Alabama. The original Five Points High School was an imposing brick building which had two floors above a full basement and a large auditorium that seated 400 people. Erected in 1916 on an {{convert|18|acre|adj=on}} campus, it was the only rural school in the state with its own electric and steam-generating plant and water works. The school building was replaced by a one-story building in 1939. In 1974 a fire destroyed that structure which was replaced by the present building.<ref name="Five Points, Alabama: Town of Five"/>

The town elected its first [[African-American]] mayor, Geneva Bledsoe, in 1992. The current mayor is Jeffrey Monroe, who was appointed Mayor in 2022 when former mayor Derrick Wright moved out of the town limits.