PIGGTOWN, about seven miles southeast of Hamilton, was so named because it was the business site on which Mack Pigg built three wooden business buildings before 1886. Piggtown, near Pleasant Point, received three votes when the election was held in 1886 to consider relocating the countyseat of Hamilton County to Pegtown, near Shive. When the Cotton Belt Railroad was built to Hamilton, it passed through Piggtown, which was about a mile from Pleasant Point. The residents of Pleasant Point moved to the railroad and Piggtown was called ALEMAN by the Mexican laborers employed to build the railroad. The Spanish word for German is Aleman.