“Founded in 1890, Pell City today is a prosperous community of 9,600 that is booming with new business and residential growth. Birmingham is less than an hour away, while Atlanta, Chattanooga, Huntsville, and Montgomery are within a two hour drive. Pell City residents enjoy boating, fishing and other sports since Logan Martin Lake is literally in many backyards. Away from the lake, Pell City centers around more than 30 churches and a city school system with an excellent reputation statewide. Within 50 miles of Pell City are 11 colleges and universities and 7 vocational-technical schools.”
-Official Pell City website
A snap shot of what's happening in Pell City and St. Clair County (demographics, etc).
St. Clair county has been the fastest growing county or one of the fastest growing counties in the state of Alabama for the past 5 years or so. It was noted that there are 30,000 people who live within a 15 minute drive of church and 120,000 who live within 30 minutes of church. It is a growing community to say the least. Logan Martin Lake attracts a lot of people.
In recent days, Pell City has experienced a period of rapid residential and commercial growth (estimated population around 16,000, excluding the unincorporated residential areas just south of the city along the lakefront) spurred, partly, by the opening of the Honda Plant in nearby Lincoln, Alabama a new industrial park on its northeastern border and by a new retail area on the north side of I-20 anchored by a super Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Cracker Barrel (yeah!) and a movie theater, being constructed. Additional retail and entertainment development is expected in the near future.
After a period of growth in the 1980s Pell City voted to split its school system off from the county system, becoming independent. The system has over 4500 students spread across Pell City High School Duran Junior High School, Duran South, Iola Roberts Elementary, Walter M. Kennedy Elementary, Coosa Valley Elementary, and Eden Elementary. In addition, a new 5-6 grade school is under construction, eventually bringing the number of campuses in the Pell City School System to eight.
more soon.... maybe
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