Spirit Of Cooperation Enables Fayette To Flourish As An Alabama Community Of Excellence

By Cary Estes

For nearly 75 years, one of Alabama’s most iconic food concoctions has been produced in the small town of Fayette. The delightfully gooey Golden Eagle syrup stirs memories of country mornings spent eating grandmother’s homemade biscuits, and using the final bites to sop up every bit of the sticky remnants.

The ingredients for Golden Eagle are deceptively simple: corn syrup, sugar syrup, cane molasses and pure honey. That’s it. No cellulose gum or caramel color or sodium hexametaphosphate. Yet, somehow, those few ingredients blend to produce big results.

The same can be said for the city of Fayette, located about 40 miles north of Tuscaloosa. Despite having a population of fewer than 5,000 (and fewer than 20,000 throughout Fayette County), Fayette’s residents and officials have a way of working together to solve problems and create economic development and community enhancements that belie the town’s modest size.“We have great collaboration here,” Fayette Mayor Ray Nelson said. “We sit down with our citizens and make plans. We all get together on what we need, and then we just find a way to make it happen.”

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