"Battelle is a ghost town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.Battelle was once a thriving mining community which was spread in a north \u2013 south line along the foot of Lookout Mountain five miles north of Valley Head, Alabama.At the beginning of the 20th Century, Battelle included hundreds of houses, a school, a commissary, a hotel and post office, in addition to the furnace and coke ovens."@en . "256" . . "-6" . "-5" . . . "278.0"^^ . "Battelle"@en . . "277.978"^^ . .