Grady, Alabama

Grady is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States. Grady is located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Montgomery. It is at the intersection of Montgomery County Road 28 (Meriwether Trail) and Montgomery County Road 1 (Ramer-Grady Road).

Grady, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 31°59′42″N 86°12′4″W
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Montgomery
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	36036
Area code	334
GNIS feature ID	119205[1]

Grady is named in honor of Henry W. Grady.^[2]

A US Postal Office is in Grady. Its ZIP code is 36036. A post office first began operating under the name Grady in 1890.^[3]

Notable people

• Tracy Harris Patterson, former two weight world champion boxer
• Ike Zimmerman, blues guitarist, who is now known to have been musician Robert Johnson's main guitar teacher^[4]

References

1. "Grady". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
3. "Montgomery County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
4. Bruce Conforth; Gayle Dean Wardlow (June 4, 2019). Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson. Chicago Review Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-64160-097-2.