Patton was an unincorporated community in Walker County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.

[2] The two towns were 1.1 miles (1.8 km) apart on a spur line of the Southern Railway.

In 1887, 1300 workers at Patton went on strike against Virginia and Alabama Coal after the company refused to raise pay from 65 to 75 cents per ton.

[4] The Alabama Knights of Labor intervened and revoked the local union's charter for refusing to submit to arbitration, and the strike ended inconclusively after more than five months.

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