Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Monroeville, AL

Monroeville is a city in southwest Alabama and the county seat of Monroe County.

The settlement began as Walker's Mill and Store, named for Major Walker, the area's first European-American settler, and in 1832 the county seat was relocated to it from Claiborne on the Alabama River.

After briefly being called Centerville for its position at the center of the county, the town took the name Monroeville and was formally incorporated on April 15, 1899.

As of the 2020 census, Monroeville had a population of 5,951 people.

The 2020 census counted 2,527 households in Monroeville, and the median age of residents was 41.5 years.

Monroeville carries the nickname "The Literary Capital of Alabama," and in 1997 the Alabama Legislature officially designated Monroeville and Monroe County the Literary Capital of Alabama.

Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville, and her hometown inspired the fictional town of Maycomb in her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Writer Truman Capote spent part of his childhood in Monroeville as Harper Lee's next-door neighbor; Capote became the model for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird, while Lee inspired the character Idabel in Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms.

The Old Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville, whose courtroom interior was used as a reference for the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, is now operated as a museum by the Monroe County Heritage Museum.

Each May, the Monroe County Heritage Museum stages an amateur stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird on the courthouse grounds with an all-volunteer cast, and literary tourism drew an estimated 30,000 visitors a year to the city as of 2006.