About Us

Attalla was incorporated as a city government on February 5, 1872, and was founded in 1870 on land donated for the site of the town by W. C. Hammond, a plantation owner. The town was officially named ?Attalla? in 1893. ?My Home? is the most generally accepted meaning for the name Attalla. Attalla was prosperous until the railroads that it depended on went into bankruptcy.