Aldrich is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Alabama, United States, that is now part of Montevallo.

He leased the mining operations to his younger brother, William F. Aldrich, who was married to Josephine Cables Aldrich, spiritualist, Theosophist, editor, and publisher.

Convict labor was employed at some time during the operation of Aldrich's coal mines, and is mentioned in Douglas Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name.

[3] The community was once home to churches, a school, and houses that were all built by the operators of the mines.

[5] A post office was established in 1883, with William Aldrich as the first postmaster, and was in use until it was closed in 1965.