Aberfoil was incorporated on January 26, 1839, in then Macon County, and the first election for councilors was conducted and managed by Lewis Stoudenmire, Charles G. Lynch, Thomas Scott, David Hudson, and A. J. and E. A. Jackson. It was the first town incorporated within the present boundaries of Bullock County and was one of three sites considered for the county seat in 1867. The Aberoil post office was established on September 3, 1837, with Alfred Spaulding as postmaster. The community’s first school, the Aberfoil Male and Female Academy, was incorporated on February 2, 1839, with Lewis Stoudenmire, Benjamin Scot, Samuel Johnson, James Larkin, Charles G. Lynch, Linson Keener, and John McBearhall as trustees. Aberfoil Academy followed in 1843 with F. G. Thomas, James Larkin, A. Y. Frierson, Lewis Stoudenmire, and Frederick Houghton as trustees, and another Aberfoil Academy was incorporated in 1860 with Howell Peebles, John Allums, Simon Stinson, and N. G. Owens as trustees. Aberfoil Public School was organized by Reverend C. H. Thornton in 1890 next to the Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church. The community was served by Lydia Baptist Church and Aberfoil Methodist Episcopal Church for the white population and Walton Chapel and Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church for the African American population. Its cemeteries included Lydia Cemetery, Aberfoil Methodist Episcopal South Church Cemetery, Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, and African Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery. Several stores, a Masonic Lodge, and a blacksmith shop served the community, which thrived into the early 1900s. Dallas Stoudenmire, a native of Aberfoil, joined the Confederate army at age 16 and later became a lawman in the post-war West, serving as a Texas Ranger, Town Marshall of El Paso, and United States Deputy Marshal.