Harvest is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the northwestern part of Madison County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Metro Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the community is 3,054.
History
Harvest was part of the
Cherokee lands until about 1810. It had been a settled community for many thousands of years prior to this. People often find artifacts of this early settlement including pottery, arrow heads and various Native American tools in the area. A rail road was extended south from
Fayetteville, Tennessee to the community of Capshaw some 5 miles (8 km) south south west of present day Harvest. This rail road went bankrupt in the economic troubles that lead to the
Great Depression of the 1930's. The track of this rail road remains to this day as "Old Railroad Bed Road."
Many families who formed the older settlement population are part Cherokee Indian. The oldest Church in the Area is Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church established in 1808 as a mission to the Cherokee Indians of the area. The largest Church in the Area is the Harvest Baptist Church.
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