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Line 69: ==History== Atmore was first recorded as a stop (Williams Station)<ref>{{Cite web\|url = http://www.goldbug.com/\|title = SiteFind, v. 3.0, CD and free online versions available\|website = The Gold Bug\|publisher = The Gold Bug\|last = Ettinger\|first = Adrian B.}}</ref> on the [[Mobile and Great Northern Railroad]]. The town was originally going to be named "Carney", in honor of a prominent citizen who owned a sawmill in town. However, Mr. Carney had a brother who had already established a town nearby with the same name. heThe town then decided to let Mr. Carney name the town. He named it after his close friend C.P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent of the [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]]. Despite it being named in his honor, Mr. Atmore never visited the town.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1900/05/30/archives/cp-atmore-drops-dead-was-general-passenger-agent-of-the-louisville.html C.P. ATMORE DROPS DEAD] ''C.P. ATMORE'' (retrieved 16 August 2010)</ref> In 2008 the city of Atmore annexed [[Alabama Department of Corrections]] prison property, including [[Holman Correctional Facility]] and [[Fountain Correctional Facility]]. The Alabama DOC asked for the city to annex the land.<ref>{{cite web\|last=Prestridge\|first=Adam \|url=https://www.atmoreadvance.com/2008/08/13/city-council-annexes-7000-acres/\|title=City council annexes 7,000 acres\|newspaper=[[Atmore Advance]]\|date=2008-08-13\|accessdate=2022-08-01}}</ref>

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