Where the name Langtown came from (as told by Bob Lang):
The ladies of the Langtown community got together to form a "garden club". Most of the women in the club were married to the Lang brothers. They decided to call their garden club the Langtown garden club and the name stuck. The Lang's owned three of the corners of the land at the 33-Chalybeate road intersection and ran several business in t
hat area. My dad, Buddy Lang's grandfather had a minnow business and was a blacksmith. Two of his sons-twin brothers Paul and Silas were preachers who preached throughout North Alabama. Two other brothers, Dee and Archie, ran stores and gas stations (filling stations). Another brother, my grandfather Harold was a mechanic and a blacksmith and had a garage there. Langtown basically got its name because of the sons of John D. Lang who lived and worked there, much like the communities of Youngtown and Parkertown. Joan Lang adds:
Mag Lang (Maggie Lee Rains Lang) is the one who first named the community Langtown. I have an old newspaper article from the Moulton Advertiser published in 1995 about Langtown and how it got its name. According to the article, Robert Lang, (Bob, Laurie and Joe's great, great grandfather) left Texas in the 1800's with his family in a covered wagon and settled in a community in Lawrence County, Alabama just south of the Mountain Home community. Lang, later married and raised seven sons in this thriving community. The article stated, "Less than 100 years after the first Langs nestled in Lawrence County, a community called Langtown was born." The newspaper article tells about a group of ladies in the area forming a club in the 1940's but no one was sure what to name the club. Since most of the ladies present were Langs, Mag (wife of Robert's grandson Harold) suggested that the club be called the Langtown Home Demonstration Club. The article quotes another Lang, Carrie, "This was the first time we had ever heard Langtown but the name just caught on." Other notes:
After being hit hard by an F5 tornado on April 27th, 2011 members of the community have banned together to help other and get everything cleaned up. A lot of work remains to be done, but everyday brings progress. The same community was hit hard by a tornado on April 3rd, 1974. Many of the residents survived both storms.
