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Cullman is a city in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, north of Birmingham, Alabama and south of Huntsville, Alabama. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 16,675, only 2,000 more than recorded in the 2000 census.
The city is the county seat of Cullman County.
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In the time before European settlement, the area that today includes Cullman was originally in the territory of the Cherokee Nation. The region was traversed by a trail known as the Black Warrior's Path, which led from the Tennessee River near the present location of Florence, Alabama to a point on the Black Warrior River south of Cullman. The trail figured significantly in Cherokee history, and featured prominently in the American Indian Wars prior to the establishment of the state of Alabama and the relocation of several American Indian tribes, including the Creek tribe. During the Creek Indian War in 1813, General Andrew Jackson of the U.S. Army dispatched a contingent of troops down the trail, one of which included famous frontiersman Davy Crockett.
During the American Civil War, the future location of Cullman was the site of the Battle of Day's Gap. On 30 April 1863, Union forces under the command of Colonel Abel Streight won a victory over forces under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. This battle was part of a campaign and chase known collectively as Streight's Raid. Although Streight got the upper hand in this battle, Forrest would have the last laugh. In one of the more humorous moments of the war, Streight sought a truce and negotiations with Forrest in present-day Cherokee County near present-day Gaylesville. Although Streight's force was larger than Forrest's, while the two were negotiating, Forrest had his troops march repeatedly in a circuitous route past the site of the talks. Thinking himself badly outnumbered, Streight surrendered to Forrest on the spot.
Cullman itself was founded in 1873 by Colonel John G. Cullmann, a German refugee who arrived in America. (The city's name was Americanized to "Cullman", although some sources state that Cullmann had earlier Americanized his name from "Kullmann". Stanley Johnson, his only surviving American descendant, told The Cullman Times in 1998 that there are no German records indicating "Kullmann", and that "Cullmann" was always the correct spelling.) Cullmann had been an advocate of democratic reforms in his native Germany, who fled when the autocratic Prussian-dominated regime emerged ascendant after the Revolutions of 1848. In 1873, Cullmann purchased of land from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, on which he established a colony for German immigrants.
Five German families moved to the area in March 1873; in 1878, the town was incorporated and named after Colonel Cullmann. Over the next twenty years, Cullmann encouraged around 10,000 Germans to immigrate to the United States, with many settiling in the Cullman area. Cullmann drew on his military engineering training in laying out and planning the town. During this period, Cullman underwent considerable growth. German continued to be widely spoken, and Cullmann himself was the publisher of a German-language newspaper. When Cullmann died in 1895, at the age of 72, his funeral was marked by the attendance of Governor William C. Oates. The site Cullmann selected for his headquarters is now his gravesite.
For many years Cullman was a college town, with Saint Bernard College serving as the home of several hundred students. In the mid-1970s, it briefly merged with Sacred Heart College (a two-year Benedictine women’s college), to become Southern Benedictine College. That college closed in 1979, and it now operates as Saint Bernard Preparatory School. The former site of Sacred Heart College is now the Sacred Heart Monastery, which serves as a retreat center operated by the Benedictine Sisters of Sacred Heart Monastery.
During the twentieth century, Cullman developed a more diverse economy, including several manufacturing and distribution facilities. However, its economy remains primarily based on agriculture and providing services to the agricultural workforce. Cullman County has the highest agricultural production in the state, and is one of the sixty largest agricultural-production counties in dollar terms in the United States.
Cullman gained national attention in early 2008, when a special election was held to fill a vacancy in the Alabama House of Representatives. Cullman County has only a 1% African-American population, a fact which outsiders have used to portray the area as an intolerant backwater, even alluding to disputed reports of Ku Klux Klan influence (despite its significant Catholic population). Cullman is known throughout the region as a sundown town. Those allegations were laid to rest when the district that included Cullman elected James C. Fields, an African-American, in that special election by an overwhelming margin.
Cullman's German heritage was repressed during both World War I and World War II, as the United States was fighting Germany. This was reversed in the 1970s, with renewed interest in the city's history and heritage. Today, Cullman holds an annual Oktoberfest—although without the traditional beer, since as Cullman is in a dry county. An honorary "Bürgermeister" is elected for each Oktoberfest.
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