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Lowndesboro is a small incorporated town in Lowndes County, Alabama, and it is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Originally known as McGill's Hill, the community began attracting settlers after the Creek War ended.

In 1832 residents renamed the community Lowndesboro in honor of U.S. Congressman William Lowndes, son of early South Carolina governor Rawlins Lowndes.

Lowndesboro was first incorporated by the state legislature in 1856, but the incorporation lapsed and the town was not reincorporated until 1962.

Thanks to its proximity to the Alabama River, Lowndesboro had grown into a prosperous cotton town by the 1830s, and wealthy planters left behind a legacy of mid-19th-century architecture.

On the 1880 census Lowndesboro was the largest town in Lowndes County, with 472 residents.

Much of the town lies within the Lowndesboro Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places; its antebellum buildings survived partly because a brief April 1865 skirmish during Wilson's Raid caused very little destruction.

The Will Stone Store, established in 1820, still stands in Lowndesboro as a reminder of its early trading days.

The Marengo House was built in Autauga County in 1847, then disassembled, moved across the Alabama River, and reassembled in Lowndesboro in 1854; in 2011 the Lowndesboro Town Hall moved into its ground floor.

Lowndesboro's C.M.E. Church, built in 1833, is topped by a cupola that came from Alabama's original state capitol building at Old Cahawba, and the town's Presbyterian church, founded in 1816, still holds regular services.