Bluffton is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.

The Bluffton Land, Ore and Furnace Company operated an iron mine in the area, and was also responsible for building the Signal Hotel, which at one point hosted Rudyard Kipling.

[4] Besides the iron mines, Bluffton was home to a water works system, school, post office, and Cherokee County's first electrical generating plant.

Even so, Bluffton's ore fields did not meet the expectations of their investors and higher grade iron was available closer to Birmingham.

Commercial businesses began to fail, and Bluffton soon came to be considered a ghost town.