Possum Trot, Alabama

Possum Trot is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

Notable people

• Rick Bragg, a journalist, was raised in Possum Trot.
• Herman Clarence Nixon, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians, was born in Possum Trot. In 1941, he wrote a book about his hometown, entitled Possum Trot: Rural Community, South.
• Lilly Ledbetter, American activist and namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was born in Possum Trot

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