Editing Lineville, Alabama (section)

==Education==
Lineville Academy began in 1856. The first red school house was built soon after with an additional school added later. The Lineville Institute opened in 1883 but closed a year later in 1884.<ref>History of Clay County, Glanda Garrett Ingram, Progressive Study Club, 1986</ref>

[[Lineville College]], a [[coeducational]] institution for white students, was founded in 1890 in Lineville,<ref>{{cite book| author1=Harry Thurston Pech| author2=Selim Hobart Peabody| author3=Charles Francis Richardson| title=The International Cyclopædia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge. Revised with Large Additions| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAMoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA815| year=1900| publisher=Dodd, Mead| page=815}}</ref> incorporated in 1891<ref>{{cite book| author=Alabama| title=Alabama Laws and Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of Alabama| url=https://archive.org/details/actsgeneralasse08unkngoog| year=1891| publisher=J. Boardman| page=[https://archive.org/details/actsgeneralasse08unkngoog/page/n717 712]}}</ref> and disestablished in 1903.<ref>{{cite book| author=United States. Office of Education| title=Annual report| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1joXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1347| year=1903| publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.| page=1347}}</ref>

In 1917, the old Springhill Black School was replaced with a new building named Clay County Training School. In 1929, during the Great Depression, Lineville families lost farms and many businesses failed. A new factory began operation in Lineville in 1946 and in 1949, a new hospital was built there.<ref name="Lineville, Alabama"/>