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Skyline is a town atop the Cumberland Plateau in western Jackson County, Alabama, at an elevation of about 1,591 feet.

Skyline began in 1934 as Cumberland Farms, a cooperative farming experiment run under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal Emergency Relief Administration; it was one of 43 such resettlement projects attempted across the country during the Great Depression.

The project was soon renamed Skyline Farms to avoid confusion with a project in neighboring Tennessee, and federal planners laid out 181 small farms for families taken from nearby relief rolls.

The cooperative farming experiment lasted about a decade before the land was sold off to private buyers in 1944.

The Skyline Commissary, built in 1935 of local stone and nicknamed the Rock Store, served as the colony's cooperative store and social hub; it now operates as the Rock Store Museum and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

In May 1938, singers and dancers from Skyline Farms traveled to Washington and performed at the White House at the invitation of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

The present town of Skyline, which incorporated in 1985, sits about a mile north of the original farming colony.

The 2020 census counted 834 residents in Skyline, living in 367 households, little changed from 851 residents in 2010.

Alabama State Route 79 runs through Skyline, connecting it with Scottsboro in the Tennessee River valley to the south and with Tennessee to the north.

Skyline High School serves the mountaintop community, and its campus preserves a New Deal-era stone school building, the Rock School, which preservationists saved from demolition in the late 1990s.