Cuba, Alabama
Alabama
Cuba sits in the western edge of Alabama's Black Belt, in Sumter County, which was carved out of Choctaw land ceded under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in eighteen thirty. By eighteen fifty a post office had been established here under the name Cuba. Two years later, R.
A. Clay arrived from Autauga County, bought the townsite land, and the community slowly took shape around farming and a small truck-crop economy. The town incorporated in eighteen ninety with a local physician, Dr.
A. L. Vaughan, as its first mayor.
How it got the name Cuba is not well documented.
