Foshee, Alabama

Foshee is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Alabama, United States between Brewton and Pollard on U.S. Route 29.

Foshee was founded as a sawmill town and named after Stewart J. Foshee, who owned several sawmills in Escambia County.

[2] Russell A. Alger and Martin Sullivan founded the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company in the late 1890s and began logging around Foshee.

They used lumber from the mill to build a new sawmill in Florida, which eventually grew into the town of Century.

This Escambia County, Alabama state location article is a stub.

Map of Alabama highlighting Escambia County