Daviston is a town in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States.

With construction of Chapman Road from West Point, Georgia to Fort Williams, Alabama on the Coosa River, land areas opened up to white settlement.

When he submitted the name to the government, due to poor penmanship or a mistake, "Davis Town" became Daviston and has since remained.

Walker Allen was elected principal of Daviston School.

For 105 years, Daviston School served as the center of the community.

In 1998, a committee formed to initiate a Daviston School Reunion to be held annually in the center of the town on the second Saturday of November.

The racial makeup of the town was 82.02% White and 17.98% Black or African American.

26.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 15.9% of families and 18.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.7% of those under the age of eighteen and 20.0% of those 65 or over.