Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Vredenburgh, AL

Vredenburgh is a small incorporated town in Monroe County in southwest Alabama, with 222 residents at the 2020 census.

Vredenburgh was founded in 1910 as the company mill village of the Vredenburgh Saw Mill and Plant, and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad built a line to serve it.

The town's founder was Peter Vredenburgh Jr., an Illinois lumberman whose father sent him to Alabama with $50,000 in seed money to start his own business.

The town incorporated in 1912, when Peter Vredenburgh Jr. was 37 years old.

The Vredenburgh sawmill operation was enormous, clearing some 90,000 acres of forest over five decades and producing as much as 50 million board feet of lumber per year.

In its company-town heyday Vredenburgh featured schools for Black and white children, a baseball stadium, and a church, with workers paying a dollar or two a month to rent company houses.

Vredenburgh's population fell from 312 in 2010 to 222 in 2020 as the timber economy contracted.

Long-time Vredenburgh resident Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush was the first woman vice-president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America and later served as secretary of the Democratic National Committee.

The forests around Vredenburgh are now sustainably managed by the Wilmon Timberlands company and have been designated a TREASURE Forest.

Vredenburgh has one K-8 school overseen by Monroe County Public Schools.