Thomasville is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 3,649. Founded as a late 19th-century railroad town, it has transitioned over the course of more than a century into a 21st-century commercial hub. It is the childhood hometown of author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham.
Downtown Thomasville in 2008.
Thomasville before the fire of 1899, looking east down Wilson Avenue.
Downtown Thomasville in 2008, looking west up Wilson Avenue.
Congresswoman Terri Sewell with Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day at the new Thomasville Regional Medical Center
Clarke County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,087. The county seat is Grove Hill. The county's largest city is Jackson. The county was created by the legislature of the Mississippi Territory in 1812. It is named in honor of General John Clarke of Georgia, who was later elected governor of that state.
Clarke County Courthouse in Grove Hill