Loango, Alabama

Loango, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 31°19′47″N 86°38′56″W
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Covington
Elevation	315 ft (96 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	334
GNIS feature ID	121936[1]

Loango is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.

History

A post office operated under the name Loango between 1856 and 1907.[2] The maternal great-great-grandparents of Bill Clinton are buried in the Old Loango Cemetery.[3]

Name

The local explanation for the town name, is that it comes from a combination of the words load, and, and go.[4] A more probable source is the Loango Coast and the port of Loango, Republic of Congo, a major source of slaves before the outlawing of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (See: Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola.)

References

1. "Loango". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. "Covington County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
3. "Many cemeteries in Covington County need immediate attention". Andalusia Star-News. June 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
4. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.