Erie is a ghost town located in present-day Hale County, Alabama, United States.

[3] Erie was incorporated in 1820, and was a thriving town with stores, a hotel, a jail, and a population of approximately 1,500 who "dwelt in pomp and circumstances with all the bickerings and intrique (sic), the ambitions, love and hate that surrounds a prosperous town".

[4][5] Located on a bend of the Black Warrior River, Erie became a shipping port for cotton headed to the seaport of Mobile on the Gulf Coast.

[6] In addition, during the late 1830s, Erie suffered an outbreak of yellow fever, as did many towns on the river system.

Erie was within the territory of what became part Hale County, Alabama when it was organized in 1867, following the Civil War.