Jefferson is an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.

It was founded in 1810, before Marengo was a county or Alabama was a state.

Most of the original settlers were veterans of the American Revolution, including John Sample, John Gilmore, and Reuben Hildreth.

[5] The population had reached 200 people by 1860 and the village contained two dry goods stores, one drugstore, a male and a female academy, a Masonic Lodge, a hotel, two tanneries, a wagon shop, and a blacksmith shop.

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