Livingston - Encyclopedia of Alabama

Livingston, the county seat of Sumter County, is located in west-central Alabama between Tuscaloosa and Meridian, Mississippi, in the East Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic section. It has a mayor-city council form of government. Folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt (1880–1974) and social reformer Julia Tutwiler, who founded what is now the University of West Alabama, are Livingston’s […]