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Long before Lisman was founded and incorporated, cotton plantations dominated the land the town now occupies. One such plantation was founded by the Allen family, which encompassed more than 8,000 acres in and around present-day Lisman. In addition to the plantation home that still stands, the Allen property once featured a schoolhouse, a grist mill, a cotton mill, and a general store; the family also owned a gin company.

In 1912, the Alabama, Tennessee, and Northern Raiload (AT&N) built a branch line from Mobile, Mobile County, to Reform, Pickens County. The rail line was projected to run through part of the 600-acre plantation of Charles Ezell, who laid out and sold lots for businesses and residences along the proposed route. John T. Cochran, the AT&N official responsible for overseeing construction of the line, ran out of funding in the middle of the project, and for a time the work on the railroad ended. Frederick Lisman, an investor from New York, loaned Cochran money so that the line could be completed with a stipulation that one of the towns that sprung up around the railroad be named after him. The town was incorporated in 1913, then reincorporated in 1978.

In the early 1910s, Mattye Ezell opened a school was in an old plantation cotton. Various church services were also held in this building until a Methodist and a Baptist church were erected between 1914 and 1916.

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Lisman is located in an area of dense pine forests, and several lumber mills sustained the town’s economy during the early twentieth century. The town’s population peaked in the 1960s, when almost 1,000 people lived there.

The town is located in northern Choctaw County at 32°10’19.978″ North, 88°17’21.667″ West (32.172216, -88.289352).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), all land.