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Loxley is a city in south-central Baldwin County, Alabama, and part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area.

The community began as a settlement called Bennet, and around 1900 Michigan lumberman John Loxley established a lumber camp there with a sawmill, a commissary, and a small-gauge railroad to haul timber out of the virgin pine forests.

When the area's pine timber was exhausted, John Loxley and his family left, but the settlement that took his name endured.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad ran a line through Loxley in 1906, a line originally meant to end at Fort Morgan that was never finished.

Loxley's first schoolhouse was built in 1908, followed by a three-room school building in 1911.

During World War II, Loxley hosted one of several Alabama prisoner-of-war camps that held German and sometimes Italian soldiers.

Loxley was incorporated in 1957, more than half a century after the lumber camp that gave it its name was established.

A 1965 fire destroyed Loxley's old train depot and surrounding storage sheds, marking the end of the town's railroad era.

Loxley's population more than doubled between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, jumping from 1,632 to 3,710 residents as Baldwin County boomed.

Loxley spreads across roughly 32 square miles, a very large municipal footprint for a community of its size.