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    Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877. The city...
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    Alabama is an American country music band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and...
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    northeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,608. Its county seat is Fort Payne, and it is named after Major General...
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    Jeff Cook (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Alan Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and was of English and Native American descent. He was a graduate of Fort Payne High School and Jacksonville...
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    Randy Owen (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Fort Payne, Alabama. He is of English and Scots ancestry. He dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, but he returned and graduated from Fort Payne...
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    time when the event occurred) eight miles (13 km) east-northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama. The number of people who felt this quake was exceptionally high...
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    Cherokee Plantation is a historic house in Fort Payne, Alabama. The house was built in 1790 as a two-story log cabin by Andrew Ross, a judge on the Cherokee...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Payne Formation. The Fort Payne Formation, or Fort Payne Chert, is a geologic formation found in the southeastern...
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  • The Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial in Fort Payne, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1913, "erected through...
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  • Sheila LaBarre (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    men over to partake in sexually assaulting Sheila. She graduated from Fort Payne High School in 1976. After marrying Ronnie Jennings, she was known as...
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  • Ohio Payne County, Oklahoma Payne's Prairie, Florida Fort Payne, Alabama Elsewhere Payne Creek (disambiguation) Payne Bluff above Sandon, British Columbia...
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    Larry Nelson (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Acworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta. He did not...
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    The Fort Payne Boom Town Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama. The district encompasses five properties built around 1889, when...
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  • as two Christmas albums and two Christian music albums. Formed in Fort Payne, Alabama in 1969, the band was founded by Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm...
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  • the mid-1980s, Alabama had become the most dominant act in country music. During the first half of the decade, the Fort Payne, Alabama-based group had...
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    Ellis was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He is the brother of actress Sandra Ellis Lafferty. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1970. In 1989...
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    Evan McPherson (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    football career at Fort Payne High School in Fort Payne, Alabama, where he spent four seasons as the team's kicker and punter. At Fort Payne, he made a 60-yard...
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    Lilius B. Rainey (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Representative from Alabama. He was born in Dadeville, Alabama on July 27, 1876. Rainey attended the common schools and moved to Fort Payne, Alabama. He graduated...
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    Little River Canyon National Preserve (category Protected areas of Cherokee County, Alabama)
    States National Preserve located on top of Lookout Mountain near Fort Payne, Alabama, and DeSoto State Park. Created by an Act of Congress in 1992, the...
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  • Bob Flock (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    ISBN 978-0-7787-3186-3. Retrieved 5 January 2013. Encyclopedia of Alabama. "Flock Family". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-10. Tate, William (22 November 2004)...
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  • Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (category Geology of Alabama)
    occurring in 1973 near Knoxville, Tennessee and April 29, 2003 near Fort Payne, Alabama. Earthquakes large enough to be felt occur approximately once per...
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  • Weston Burt (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Weston Burt (born in Fort Payne, Alabama) is an American country music singer. Burt is the flagship artist for HitShop Records, a record label distributed...
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    Philip Ober (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Ober Ober in 1950 Born Philip Nott Ober (1902-03-23)March 23, 1902 Fort Payne, Alabama, U.S. Died September 13, 1982(1982-09-13) (aged 80) Santa Monica...
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    Katherine Stinson (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    brothers Eddie and Jack. Stinson was born on February 14, 1891, at Fort Payne, Alabama to Edward Sr. and Emma Stinson. Edward Sr. left the family, leaving...
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    The Fort Payne Depot Museum (formerly the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Passenger Depot) is a historic building in Fort Payne, Alabama. The depot was...
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  • tanker truck then or since. The bodies were made by Heil Trailer in Fort Payne, Alabama (museum there with references and photos from the build shop that...
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  • Angels Among Us (category Alabama (American band) songs)
    First Baptist Church of Fort Payne, Alabama. Hobbs also recorded the song on her album The Boots I Came to Town In. Alabama lead singer Randy Owen has...
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    Marjorie Stinson (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Marjorie Claire Stinson (July 5, 1895 – April 15, 1975) was an American aviator, airmail pilot, pilot instructor, and stunt pilot — one of the pioneering...
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  • Tim Flock (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Charlotte Motor Speedway Court of Legends (1994). He was inducted in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in May 2006. On May 22, 2013, Flock was named a member...
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  • O. B. Grayson Hall Jr. (category People from Fort Payne, Alabama)
    Corporation. Hall was born circa 1958. He "grew up on a potato farm in Fort Payne, Alabama." He graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1979...
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