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Present-day Lipscomb was first settled in the 1830's and a Baptist Church was established in June 1834. In the later nineteenth century, the area came to be know as Wheeling, in reference to former Wheeling, West Virginia, resident Stimson Harvey Woodward, who established coal mining and blast furnace operations in the area and spurred the construction of a local railroad connection around which Wheeling further developed. In 1885, three brothers, S.W., Lawrence Y., and H.P. Lipscomb, settled there, and Lawrence opened a general store. A rail line connecting the area with Bessemer and Birmingham was established by 1890, and the town became known as Lipscomb Station after Lawrence Lipscomb. The town was incorporated on June 30, 1910 as Lipscomb, also in honor of Lawrence. He also operated a law practice in Bessemer and served several terms in the Alabama legislature. In the 1940's, Lipscomb incorporated the nearby communities of Gordon heights and Crescent Heights.

Union Baptist Church- Union Baptist Church was organized in 1834 by 18 or 20 members from Canaan Church. The Lipscomb are was known as East End. Members of the Rockett and Ware families donated the original two acres of the site and a log cabin, which served as the church until a wooden building was built in 1888. The present edifice was erected in 1922. Many of the charter members are buried in the adjacent cemetery.

The City of Lipscomb is best known for Mrs. Virginia Hill. She was born in Lipscomb on August 26, 1916. She was most famous for the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel. Virginia died on March 24, 1966 at the age of 49, in Koppl, Austria, of an apparent suicide by over dosing on sleeping pills. She was buried in Aigen Cemetery in Salzburg, Austria. She has one son Named Peter Hauser.

Virginia Hill was born in what is known as New Hill in Lipscomb. It is located right off of 3rd Place South. New Hill got its name from Mrs. Virginia Hill.