Located in east-central Alabama, Dadeville is the county seat of Tallapoosa County. It has a mayor/city council form of government.
History

Dadeville has the distinction of being the location of Alabama's first medical school, the Graefenberg Medical Institute, which operated from 1852 until the outbreak of the Civil War; attempts to rehabilitate the school after the war failed, and the building burned in 1873. That same year, the Memphis and Savannah Railroad completed the first railway line to the town from Columbus, Georgia. U.S. congressman and state judge William Bismarck Bowling chaired the city's board of education for 12 years in the early twentieth century. Completion of the Thomas Wesley Martin Dam on the Tallapoosa River in 1926 and the subsequent creation of Lake Martin had and continues to have a strong economic impact on Dadeville.
On April 27, 2011, a massive storm, causing numerous powerful tornadoes, struck the southeastern United States. More than 250 people were killed in Alabama, including one person in Dadeville.
Demographics
According to 2016 Census estimates, Dadeville recorded a population of 3,165. Of that number, 61.5 percent identified themselves as white, 37.3 percent as African American, 2.1 percent as Hispanic, and 1.2 percent as Native American. The city's median household income was $30,094, and per capita income was $20,917.
Employment
According to 2016 Census estimates, the workforce in Dadeville was divided among the following industrial categories:
· Educational services, and health care and social assistance (27.7 percent)
· Manufacturing (24.9 percent)
· Public administration (12.9 percent)
· Arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation and food services (8.3 percent)
· Finance, insurance, and real estate, rental, and leasing (5.2 percent)
· Other services, except public administration (5.0 percent)
· Transportation and warehousing and utilities (4.6 percent)
· Information (3.5 percent)
· Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extractive (2.9 percent)
· Professional, scientific, management, and administrative and waste management services (2.0 percent)
· Retail trade (2.0 percent)
· Wholesale trade (1.0 percent)
· Manufacturing (24.9 percent)
· Public administration (12.9 percent)
· Arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation and food services (8.3 percent)
· Finance, insurance, and real estate, rental, and leasing (5.2 percent)
· Other services, except public administration (5.0 percent)
· Transportation and warehousing and utilities (4.6 percent)
· Information (3.5 percent)
· Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extractive (2.9 percent)
· Professional, scientific, management, and administrative and waste management services (2.0 percent)
· Retail trade (2.0 percent)
· Wholesale trade (1.0 percent)
Education
Schools in Dadeville are part of the Tallapoosa County School District; the city has approximately 1,355 students and 95 teachers in one elementary, middle, and high school and one alternative school.
Transportation
Dadeville is intersected by U.S. Highway 280 (north-south) and State Highway 49 (south).
Events and Places of Interest

Additional Resources
The Heritage of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Clanton, Ala.: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000.