Most of Mosses was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1981 on and the census since 1970.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mosses yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mosses is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mosses had a population of 834. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area. It incorporated in 1979.
Its first post office opened in 1970. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,029 to 834 (-19%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
