Uniontown is a city in Perry County, Alabama, in west-central Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 2,107, up 18.7% over 2010. Of the 573 cities in Alabama, Uniontown is the 207th most populous.

Uniontown has four sites listed upon the National Register of Historic Places: Fairhope Plantation, Pitts’ Folly, the Uniontown Historic District, and Westwood.

First contracted in 1818, the Place that would become Uniontown was initially called Woodville after the first intimates settling there; the town was incorporated on December 23, 1836. Woodville was the terminus of one of the antique plank roads (a road paved later wooden planks) in the state, which was constructed in 1848 and joined Woodville gone Demopolis. The Alabama and Mississippi Railroad came through the town in 1857.

By 1860, the town had grown acceptable to support educational services for both boys and girls. In addition to the schools, the town had a number of businesses upon its main street, including two department stores, and the town’s economy was tied next door to to the surrounding plantations. The town became known as Uniontown in 1861 at the suggestion of a local planter, Philip Weaver, whose hometown was Uniontown, Maryland. Uniontown sent a number of men to battle with the Canebrake Rifle Guards during the Civil War, a unit named after the geographical region in which Uniontown is located, as capably as in complementary unit known as the Independent Troop of Uniontown. The area remained tied to the agricultural economy after the war.