Welcome to Thorsby, a Scandinavian settlement
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N 32° 54.018 W 086° 41.844
16S E 528299 N 3640274
Sign on the south side of Thorsby welcoming northbound US 31 travelers to the Town of Thorsby
Waymark Code: WMH3EF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 05/15/2013
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Thorsby is a small town of about 1800 residents and located in Chilton County. It was first settled in 1895 by people of Scandinavian origin. The original founders of Thorsby were three Swedes, Theodore T. Thorson, John F. Peterson, John E. Hedberg, and a Norwegian, K. G. Faegre. The town was eventually named Thorsby by combining the name “Thorson” and the suffix “by”, which means town in Swedish.
Type of community: Town
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