Skyline is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. The town incorporated in 1985. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 851, up from 843 in 2000.
Skyline initially began as Cumberland Farms in 1934, as a cooperative farming experiment under President Franklin Roosevelt's Federal Emergency Relief Agency. This was one of 43 such projects attempted nationally in depressed areas. It was soon renamed Skyline Farms to avoid confusion with another project in neighboring Tennessee. The experiment lasted for a decade before being sold off to private buyers in 1944.
The current town of Skyline is located about a mile north of the original farming colony.
Skyline is located at 34°48′11″N 86°7′25″W / 34.80306°N 86.12361°W / 34.80306; -86.12361 (34.802946, -86.123494).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10 km2), all land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 843 people, 323 households, and 251 families residing in the town. The population density was 217.9 people per square mile (84.1/km²). There were 357 housing units at an average density of 92.3 per square mile (35.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 94.90% White, 2.73% Native American, 0.12% Asian, and 2.25% from two or more races. 0.71% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Alabama is a southern state in the United States.
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Alabama was a Canadian band of the early 1970s. They had two songs that reached the top 100 in the RPM Magazine chart. "Song of Love" reached #26 in June 1973, and "Highway Driving" reached #42 in August. Band members were Buster Fykes, Hector McLean, Rick Knight, and Len Sembaluk.
Alabama is a Gloucester fishing schooner that was built in 1926 and served as the pilot boat for Mobile, Alabama. The Alabama's home port is Vineyard Haven Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The Alabama is owned by The Black Dog Tall Ships, along with the Shenandoah, and offers cruises of Nantucket Sound.
The schooner Alabama was one of the last vessels built from the design of one of the most notable designers of Gloucester Fishing Schooners, Thomas F. McManus. Commissioned by the Mobile Bar Pilot Association of Mobile, Alabama, the vessel was built in Pensacola, Florida, launched in 1926, and originally called Alabamian until her predecessor the Bar Pilot Association's original Alabama was retired. Though the hull bore strong resemblance of McMannus' famous Gloucester fishing schooner designs, it served as a pilot boat stationed on the Mobile Bar until 1966.
In 1967 the schooner was bought by Captain Robert S. Douglas, master and designer of the Shenandoah, and moved to Vineyard Haven. There she sat on a mooring with minimal necessary upkeep until 1994. In the early nineties with a dwindling market for windjammer cruises which leave out most modern amenities kids became the new direction for the Coastwise Packet Company - the original name for what is now also The Black Dog Tall Ships. Because of the success of these "Kids Cruises" on board the Shenandoah, Alabama was to be rebuilt by the Five Corners Shipbuilding Company headed by Gary Maynard a former First Mate that sailed on the Shenandoah. Most of the work was done in Vineyard Haven with the vessel afloat on her mooring using Captain Douglas' own power tools and shop space. Any other work was done in Fairhaven, Massachusetts at D.N. Kelly's Shipyard.