Praco
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Praco (originally Skelton Creek) is a former coal mining community north of Powhatan and the Locust Fork River on Flat Top Road in western Jefferson County.
The name is a shortened form of Pratt Co., for the Pratt Consolidated Coal Co. The town appears on maps in the 1910s. The Praco Post Office was established in 1931.
References
- Foscue, Virginia O. (1989) Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 081730410X