Boyles

Boyles is a former incorporated municipality near Boyles Gap, where Five Mile Creek traverses Sand Mountain. The community was named for Barley Boyle who purchased a 2,000 acre farmstead adjacent to the route of South & North Railroad through the gap.

The community was established by around 1900, and grew rapidly after the Louisville & Nashville Railwayopened the Boyles Yard in 1909. Moves to incorporate were frustrated by the railroad, eventually leadings its property to be excluded from the town limits. The Town of Boyles was incorporated on May 28, 1919.

With no industry, the town was unable to secure capital to provide the hoped-for municipal services. Boyles agreed to be annexed into Tarrant on February 2, 1927.

Mayors

• R. C. Barton, 1919–

References

• Songer, Ray (2014) Our Hometown: Tarrant, AL USA. self-published/Lulu Press ISBN 9781312579095