Athens is a city in Limestone County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 18,967. According to the 2009 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 24,234.
Athens was the home of Governor George Houston, Alabama’s first post-Reconstruction Democratic governor from 1874 through 1878. Houston was noted for reducing the debts incurred to benefit private railroad speculators and others by his Reconstruction Republican predecessors. During Reconstruction, Athens was the home of the Trinity School, a school founded for the children of former slaves by the American Missionary Association.
The median income for a household in the city of Athens was $33,980, and the median income for a family was $44,544. Males had a median income of $37,191 versus $22,748 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,315. About 13.7% of families and 16.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.2% of those under age 45and 100.8% of those age 65 or over.
Radio Stations
WJOU 90.1 FM Huntsville, AL Oakwood University Gospel Music
WJAB 90.9 FM Huntsville, AL Alabama A&M University Jazz
WEUZ 92.1 FM Minor Hill, TN Urban Contemporary
WVNN 92.5 FM Trinity, AL News/Talk
WYTK 93.9 FM Rogersville, AL Sports
WHRP 94.1 FM Gurley, AL Urban Contemporary
W238AD (WEUZ) 95.5 FM Trinity, AL Urban Contemporary
WQXD (LPFM) 97.9 FM Athens, AL Gospel Music
WWFA 102.7 FM Saint Florian, AL Top-40
WEUP 103.1 FM Moulton, AL Hip Hop
WHWT 103.5 FM New Hope, AL Hip Hop
WZYP 104.3 FM Athens, AL Top-40
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This is a slide show of Trinity High School located in Athens, Al. Which educated blacks from 1930 to 1970s and was the first school that instructed kindergarden for blacks.
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