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Notasulga is an incorporated town in northern Macon County in east-central Alabama, and its town limits also extend northeast into neighboring Lee County.

The Lee County portion of Notasulga belongs to the Auburn Metropolitan Area, while most of the town lies in Macon County.

The town began as Moore's Cross Roads, named for early settler Amos Moore, who bought land in the area in the early 1840s and began advertising lots for sale in a town called Notasulga.

The name Notasulga comes from the Creek words noti sulgi, meaning "many teeth," from the language of the Creek Indians who once lived in the area.

Notasulga received its first post office in 1843, with Amos Moore serving as its first postmaster.

The Montgomery and West Point Railroad reached Notasulga in 1844, connecting the young town to wider markets.

During the Civil War, the Confederate army operated Camp Watts at Notasulga, a camp of instruction for conscripted soldiers that also served as a supply depot and hospital.

Notasulga was incorporated in 1893.

Author Zora Neale Hurston, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Notasulga in 1891, although her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, while she was still a baby.

The Shiloh-Rosenwald School south of town was built in 1913 and was one of the first six Rosenwald schools in the nation built to educate African American children; it and the neighboring Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.