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1847, Dec. 4. Medical Association of Alabama founded at Mobile. 1848, Jan. 4. Professor Michael Tuomey named State Geologist. 1848, Oct. 25. Dixon H. Lewis died in New York.
1848. Nine electoral votes cast for Lewis Cass and Wil- liam O. Butler.
1849. Election of judges of cirenit and county courts re- moved from the legislature and committed to the people.
1849, Dec. 14. Capitol in Montgomery burned. Both houses were in session; principal archives saved, but many valuable papers burned.
1850.
Professor Tuomey's first biennial report of geol- ogy of Alabama.
1850.
Rebuilding of capitol begun.
1850, July 8. Alabama Historical Society organized at the Uni- versity.
1851. "Southern Rights Party" hold convention in Mont- gomery.
1851, Nov. -.
Present capitol at Montgomery completed.
1852, Feb. 6. 1852.
Alabama Insane Hospital incorporated.
"Southern Rights" convention nominated George M. Troup and John A. Quitman, but the nine electoral votes of the State were cast for Frank- lin Pierce and William R. King.
1853. Malignant yellow fever in Mobile.
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1853. John A. Campbell appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, to succeed John Mckinley, deceased.
1854.
South and North Railroad chartered.
1854, Feb. 15.
Gov. Winston approved the bill which established public schools.
1856. The Methodists founded the Southern University at Greensboro, and the Alabania Conference Fe- male College at Tuskegee.
1856. Colonel Jefferson Buford leads forces to Kansas, lending $20,000 to the cause.
1856.
State Medical Association suspended for twelve years.
1856. Nine electoral votes cast for James Buchanan and John C. Breckenridge.
1857.
General financial panic.
1859, Oct. 3.
Southern University opened for students. Doctor (afterward Bishop) William M. Wightman, its first president.
1860. Nine electoral votes cast for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.
1860, Dec. 24.
General election of delegates to the secession con- vention.
1861, Mar. 4. Miss L. C. Tyler, granddaughter of ex-President John Tyler, elevated the first flag of the Con- federate States to the summit of staff on the capitol in Montgomery.
1861, Feb. 4. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Mis- sissippi, and South Carolina, through duly em- powered representatives, formed the Congress of the Confederate States of America.
The temporary chairman was Robert Barnwell, of South Carolina, and the temporary secretary was Albert R. Lamar, of Georgia.
1861, Feb. 9.
The Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, was elected the permanent presiding officer, and Johnson Jones Hooper, of Alabama, the permanent secretary. The eleven States participating cast 109 votes for Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens. Of these, Alabama cast 11.
1861, Feb. 21. First message Mr. Davis sent to the Confederate Congress nominated:
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, Secretary of State.
C. G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary of Treasury.
1861, Apr. 5. 1861, May 20.
Le Roy P. Walker, of Alabama, Secretary of War. Alabama Insane Hospital admitted its first patient. Seat of government transferred to Richmond, Vir- ginia.
1862, Feb. 2. President Davis called for eleven regiments of troops.
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1862, Feb. 6. Fort Henry on the Tennessee surrendered to Gen- eral Grant.
1862, Feb. 8. Commodore Phelps steamed up to Florence, cap- tured two steamboats, in addition to other cap- tures in passage to and fro, and burnt the Con- federate supplies.
1862, Feb. 16. Fort Donelson surrendered to General Grant.
1862, Apr. 6, 7. Battle of Shiloh
1862, Apr. 11.
The Federals captured Huntsville.
1861, Apr. 13. The Federals captured Decatur.
1862, Apr. 16. The Federals captured Tuscumbia.
1862. Salt famine, due to blockades, produced great dis- tress.
1862, May 1. Colonel Scott recaptured Athens from the Federals. 1862, July 3. Captain P. D. Roddy made successful attack on the Federals near Russellville.
1862, July 10. Union men from the mountains begin to enlist in the Federal army at Decatur.
1862, July -. Colonel F. O. Armstrong with Louisiana brigade, and Captain P. D. Roddy harass the Federals and destroy bridges on Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
Aug. 5. General R. L. MeCook, with staff and escort, cap- tured by Confederate scouts under Captain Gir- ley. General McCook killed.
Aug. 13. Captain Roddy attacked Federals between Tus- cumbia and Decatur. General Bragg thanked him for his success.
1862, Aug. 27. Confederates under Colonel MeKinstry and Cap- tain Rea drive Federals from fort at the mouth of Battle Creek, near Bridgeport.
1862, Aug. -. Federals withdraw from north Alabama to avoid the dangers from the advance of Bragg's forces into Tennessee.
1862, Sept. 22. Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation to go into effect Jannary 1, 1863.
1862, Dec. 31 to Jan. 3, 1863. Stone's River campaign, including battle of Murfreesboro.
1863, Mar. 17. John Pelham killed at Kelly's Ford, Va.
1863, Apr. 11. General S. A. M. Wood and Colonel Dibrell re- pulsed three Federal gunboats at Florence.
1863, Apr. 17. General P. D. Roddy, with 1200 men, began attacks on Federal General Grenville M. Dodge, with 7500 men, at Little Bear Creek.
1863, May-June. Federals burn and destroy immense quantities of property between Corinth and Florence.
1863, July 1, 2, and 3. Battle of Gettysburg.
1863, July 4. Fall of Vicksburg.
1863, July 27. Death of Wm. L. Yancey.
1863, Aug. -. Called session of legislature made 16 to 60 years the conscript limit, and appropriated $1,000,000
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to support soldiers' families during October, November, and December.
1863, Sept. 19 and 20. Battle of Chickamauga.
1863, Nov. -. Legislature voted $3,000,000 to support soldiers' families during 1864; taxed all products one- tenth; voted $1,500,000 for military defense.
1863, Dec. 17-July 17, 1864. Atlanta Campaign.
1864, Jan. 25. Colonel W. A. Johnson began attacks on Federals in north Alabama.
1864, Jan. 26. Roddy failed to capture Athens; soon ordered to join Wheeler at Dalton, Ga., but sent back in April to protect north Alabama.
1864, Mar. 7.
Federals captured Decatur.
1864, May 17. Colonel Josiah Patterson defeated Federals at Madison Station.
1864, May 29. General Stephen D. Lee appointed to command the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and east Louisiana.
1864, July 10.
General Rousseau, with 2300 men, left Decatur on raid to Opelika.
1864, July 19. The Alabama, Captain Raphael Semmes, sunk by the Kearsarge, Captain Winslow, at mouth of of Cherbourg Harbor, off the coast of France. 1864, July 30. Wilcox's brigade checks the Federals at the Peters- burg Crater.
1864, Aug. 20.
General John Herbert Kelly killed at Franklin, Tenn.
1864, Aug. 25.
General Richard Taylor appointed to command the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and east Louisiana.
1864, Sept. 19. Robert Emmet Rodes killed at Winchester, Va.
1864, Sept. 23 to 24. Forrest captured Athens from Col. Campbell. Sept. 25. Forrest captured Sulphur Trestle.
1864, Sept. -. Sherman followed Hood as far as Gaylesville, Alabama; detachments did much damage in re- gion toward Gadsden.
1864, Oct. 7. General John Gregg killed while leading Field's division against Federal lines, near Richmond. 1864, Oct. 26. A portion of Hood's army made unsuccessful attack on Federal fortifications around Decatur.
1864, Nov. 30.
Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
1865, Mar. 29. Federal General J. H. Wilson's three columns con- verge at Elyton.
1865, Mar. 31. Federals burn the Red Mountain, Central, Bibb, Cahaba and Columbian Iron Works.
1865, Apr. 1. Forrest checked Federals near Dixie Station, and killed Captain Taylor, Federal, in personal en- counter.
1865, Apr. 2. Selma captured by General J. H. Wilson.
1865, Apr. 12. Montgomery captured by General J. H. Wilson.
1865, May 4. General Richard Taylor, commanding the Depart-
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ment of the West, surrendered to General Canby, at Citronelle.
1865, May 4-June 21. Civil government suspended.
1865, June 21. President Johnson appointed Lewis E. Parsons, provisional governor of Alabama.
1865.
Robbers in uniforms of United States soldiers, commit numerous depredations.
1865, Sept. 12-30. Constitutional convention, with Ex-Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick, president, abolished slavery, annulled Ordinance of Secession, pro- vided for election in November, and for meeting of general assembly.
1866, Jan. 16. Legislature presents memorial to President Jolm- son, petitioning withdrawal of Federal troops from Alabama.
1866, Feb. 22. Legislature approved the policy of President John- son, and denounced those whose interests in the State were promoted by false representation. It pledged to the negro race justice, humanity, and good faith.
1866, Dec. 6. Legislature refused to ratify fourteenth amend- ment to constitution of the United States.
1867, Mar. 27. Congress relegated Alabama to military rule, and made adoption of the fourteenth amendment by a majority of electors essential to the State's representation in Congress.
1867, Sept. 4. Conservative party met in Montgomery.
1867, Nov. 5-Dee. 6. Constitutional convention in capitol at Mont- gomery, E. W. Peck, president, was composed of carpet-baggers, scalawags, negroes, and a few decent whites.
1868, Jan. 1. Representative men of the Conservative party, in conference at Montgomery. planned to defeat the unsavory reconstruction constitution, and named January 30 as a day of fasting and prayer.
1868, Feb. 4. Vote on the constitution falling below majority of registered voters, that instrument failed of rati- fication. Congress, however, forced the consti- tution on the State.
1868, July 13-Dec. 3. The "Radical" legislature, nominated by the "Black Man's party," ratified the fourteenth amendment.
1868. Senators-elect were, by terms of the constitution, to draw lots for long or short terms, half-and- half. The senators refused to draw, and so all held the long term.
1868. Democrats support Horatio Seymour and F. P. Blair for President and Vice-President of the United States.
1868. . Eight electoral votes cast for Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax, Republicans.
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1869. Jan. 1. Freedmen's Bureau discontinued by operation of- Act of Congress.
1869, Apr. -. 1869, Nov. 24. 1870.
New University building opened to students.
General assembly ratified the fifteenth amendment. The Conservative party, aligning with Northern Democrats, took the name "Democratic and Con- servative party."
1871, Jan. 1. Alabama and Chattanooga railroad failed to pay interest due on bonds, and Governor Lindsay seized the property of the railroad to secure the State against loss.
1871, Sept. 26. General James HI. Clanton killed at Knoxville, Tennessee, by David M. Nelson, a Federal. 1871, Dec. 19. Birmingham incorporated by charter from the general assembly ..
1872, Mar. 20.
State Polytechnic Institute, as Agricultural and Mechanical College, established at Auburn, in East Alabama Male College, which the Metho- dists had donated to the State.
1872.
1872, Dec. -. 1873. 1873.
Eight electoral votes cast for Grant and Wilson. State Normal College established at Florence. Cholera in Birmingham. Yellow fever in Mobile. Patrons of Husbandry organized.
1873, Apr. 18. 1873.
Dr. Eugene Allen Smith appointed State geologist. John G. Cullman planted the German colony in what is now Cullman county.
1873, Dec. 9.
State Normal and Industrial School for Negroes established at Huntsville.
1874.
The Democratic party at the North carried con- gressional elections and thus rebuked the perse- entions against Confederates.
1874, Dec. 17. General assembly appointed Governor Houston, Levi W. Lawler, and T. B. Bethea a committee to ascertain the debt of the State and to report a plan for its liquidation and adjustment. Ex- act debt found to be $30,037,563.
1875, Mar. 19. General assembly act submitted to popular vote the question of a constitutional convention. 1875, Aug. 3. Popular election favored a constitutional conven- tion.
1875, Sept. 6 to Oct. 2.
Constitutional convention, in session at Mont- gomery, restored biennial sessions of the gen- eral assembly and limited the term of session io fifty days; fixed members' pay at $4 a day, and made president of the senate next in succession to the governor.
1875, Nov. 16. People ratify the constitution of 1875, which be- came operative on December 6.
1876, Apr. 3. Great rain and wind storm throughout Alabama. 1876, Oct. -. Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad sold at public auction.
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1876.
Ten electoral votes cast for Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks.
1878.
Violent yellow fever epidemic.
1879, Jan. 15.
State Bar Association organized.
1879, Feb. 12. 1880.
Board of Health created.
The Greenback party, in active opposition to Demo- erats.
1880.
Ten electoral votes cast for Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English, Democrats.
1880, Nov. 23.
Alice furnace, No. 1, in Birmingham, went into blast.
1881, Feb. 10.
Industrial and normal school for negroes estab- lished at Tuskegee.
1881, Feb. 11.
Board of dental examiners created.
1881, Feb. 26.
State railroad commission established.
1882.
Alabama State Teachers' Association formed.
1882.
East and west railroad linked Cartersville, Geor- gia, and Pell City, Alabama.
1883, Jan. -.
Defalcation of State Treasurer Isaac H. Vincent discovered.
1883.
Anniston and Sheffield founded.
1883, Feb. 23.
State Department of Agriculture created.
1884.
Birmingham Mineral Railroad opened to traffic. Ten electoral votes cast for Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.
1885, Feb. 16. Office of State Examiner of Public Accounts created.
1885, Sept. 30.
Confederate Monument Association incorporated. Immense freshets in spring and summer.
1886.
1886, Apr. 29. Jefferson Davis lays cornerstone of Confederate monument in Montgomery.
1887, Apr. 12.
Bessemer founded.
Board of Pharmacy established.
1887, Feb. 28. 1887.
The following railroads opened to travel: Alabama Midland, Birmingham and Atlantic, Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, Mobile and Birming- ham.
1887, June -. The main college building at Auburn burned. 1888. Yellow fever in Decatur.
1888. Ten electoral votes cast for Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman.
1888, Mar. 14. Birmingham ( Evening) News founded by Rufus N. Rhodes.
1888. Savannah and Western (Central of Georgia) Rail- way opened to Birmingham.
Hawes riot at Birmingham. Thirteen persons
1888, Dec. 8. killed by posse under Sheriff Joseph S. Smith, to protect from mob violence Richard Hawes. 1889, Feb. 28. Legislature pensioned maimed Confederate sol- diers and the widows of Confederate soldiers.
1884.
State normal school established at Jacksonville.
1882.
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1890.
East Lake Athenæum established.
1892. Co-education inaugurated at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
1892. Eleven electoral votes cast for Grover Cleveland and Adlai . Stenvenson.
1893. Hon. Hilary A. Herbert appointed secretary of the navy by President Grover Cleveland.
1893. Financial panic.
1894, June. Strike by coal miners of north Alabama; ten men killed.
1896, Oct. 12. Alabama Girls' Industrial School at Montevallo opened to students.
1896, July to Dec. Seventy-five thousand tons of iron shipped from Alabama to foreign ports. This initiated export of iron from Alabama.
1896. Eleven electoral votes cast for William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewell.
1897, Feb. 3. General assembly established office of State Tax Commissioner.
1897, Feb. 16.
General assembly appointed chief mine inspector, requested examination of mine bosses, standard scales, safety-lamps, ventilation, maps, and care of those injured by accidents.
1897, Feb. 18. State Department of Insurance created.
1897, July 24. Birmingham rolling mills make successful experi- ment in manufacture of steel.
1897, Dec. 27. Cahawba bridge disaster: train went through 1897. bridge and twenty-seven people were killed. Alabama shipped 223,000 tons of iron to foreign ports.
1898, Apr. 28. Governor Johnston called for volunteers for the Spanish-American War.
1898. Low price of cotton caused widespread distress and discontent.
1898, Dec. 7. Confederate monument on Capitol Hill unveiled. 1898, Dec. 16. General assembly voted to hold a constitutional convention.
1898, Dec. 17. Governor Johnston approved the act for a consti- tntional convention.
1899, Feb. 23. Legislature voted $3,000 to buy land and erect buildings for a Boys' Industrial School.
1899, Mar. 18. Primaries for delegates to constitutional conven- tion.
1899. Governor Johnston called special session of the general assembly, and secured repeal of bill for constitutional convention on May 10.
1900.
1900, Nov. -. General assembly voted to submit to the people the question of calling constitutional convention. Eleven electoral votes cast for William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson.
1901, Mar. 25. About 10 A. M., fearful tornado in Birmingham.
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1901, May 21. Constitutional convention met in Montgomery. 1901, June 11. Governor William J. Samford died in Tuskaloosa; William Dorsey Jelks succeeded to office of gov- ernor.
1901, Nov. 11. Popular vote ratifies the new State constitution. 1902, Jan. 22. The two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated in Mobile and at Twenty-seven-mile Bluff.
1902, Jan. 23. Dr. William LeRoy Broun dropped dead in his home at Auburn.
1902, Feb. 22. Joseph J. Willett makes notable speech at the banquet of the Southern Society in New York.
1902, Feb. 12. Ex-Governor Robert Burns Lindsay died in Tus- cumbia.
1902, Apr. 29.
Terrific rainstorm in Birmingham.
1902, Aug. 25. Democratic primary election.
1902, Nov. 4. General State election.
1903, Feb. 9.
Houston county formed out of Henry, Dale, and Geneva.
1904.
First session of the University Summer School for Teachers.
1904.
Eleven electoral votes cast for Alton B. Parker.
1905, Apr. --.
Excitement over the discussion of railroad mat- ters in the session of the railroad commission in Montgomery.
1906, Aug. 27.
Democratie primary election.
1906, Nov. 6.
General State election.
1907.
Judge Thomas G. Jones nullifies the State laws by Federal injunctions against execution of laws affecting railroad freight and passenger tariffs.
1907, June 11. Death of Senator Jolin Tyler Morgan.
1907, July 27.
Death of Senator Edmund Winston Pettus.
1908, Apr. 24.
Terrific storm destroys Albertville and other places.
1908, May 28.
General Stephen D. Lee died in Vicksburg.
1908, June 12. State Text-Book Commission in session. The mem- bers, S. S. Murphy, John P. Selman, J. V. Brown, D. M. Callaway, John P. Neff, George W. Brock, J. B. Hobdy, Henry T. Lile, and Charles B. Glenn.
1908, July 6-Aug. 31. Miners' strike in Birmingham District.
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STATISTICS OF COUNTIES OF ALABAMA
Name.
When Formed.
For Whom Named.
From What Territory Taken.
County Seat.
Autauga .
Nov. 21, 1818.
Indian name.
Montgomery. Washington county.
Baldwin
Dec. 21. 1809.
J Senator Abraham Baldwin, of l 1 Georgia. 1 Gov. James Barbour, of Virginia. Gov. William Wyatt Bibb.
Pike county and Creek cession. Montgomery and Monroe.
Bibb 1
Feb. 7, 1818.
Blount
Feb. 7, 1818.
Gov. Wm. G. Blount, of Tennessee
Bullock
Dec. 5, 1866.
E. C. Bullock, of Alabama.
Butler
Calhoun 2 Chambers
Dec. 13, 1819. Dec. 18, 1832. Dec. 18, 1832.
Capt. Wm. Butler, of Alabama. J. C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. Henry C. Chambers, of Alabama. Indian Tribe.
Judge W. P. Chilton, of Alabama. Indian tribe.
Cleburne
Dec. 6, 1866.
Coffee Dec. 29, 1841.
Colbert 4
Conecuh
Feb. 6, 1867. Feb. 13, 1818. Dec. 18, 1832.
Coosa . Covington 5
Dec. 1, 1821.
[ Gen. Leonard W. Covington, ? 1 of Maryland. 5
Henry.
{ Butler. Coffee, Covington. }
Crenshaw
Nov. 24. 1866.
Anderson Crenshaw, of Alabama.
1
Lowndes, Pike.
1
Blount, Morgan. Winston. Henry and Covington. Montgomery.
Cullman. Ozark. Selma.
1 Originally "Cahaba." changed December 20, 1820, in honor of first governor of Alabama.
"Benton." from Senator Thos. H. Benton, of Missouri; changed for political rebuke January
Originally 29. 1855. 3 Originally "Baker," for Albert Baker. a resident; changed December 17, 1874.
4 Abolished November 26, 1867; reestablished December 9, 1869.
5 Name changed to "Jones" August 6, 1868; name restored October 10, 1868.
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Prattville. Bay Minette. Clayton. Centerville. Oneonta.
J Montgomery
county
and Į
1 Cherokee cession. 1
§ Barbour, Macon, Montgom- ( ery, Pike. 1
1 Conecuh and Montgomery. Creek cession of 1832. Creek cession of 1832. Cherokee cession of 1835. Autauga, Bibb, Perry, Shelby. Sumter and Washington. Washington county. Randolph and Talladega.
Union Sp'gs. Greenville. Anniston. LaFayette. Center. Clanton. Butler. Grove Hill.
Cherokee Chilton 3 Choctaw Clarke Clay
·
Jan. 9, 1836.
.
.
Dec. 30, 1868. Dec. 29, 1847. Dec. 10, 1812.
Dec. 7, 1866.
Gov. John Clarke, of Georgia. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Pat. R. Cleburne, of Arkansas. Gen. John Coffee. of Alabama. George and Levi Colbert. Indian word. Indian tribe.
Calhoun, Randolph, Talladega. Dale. Franklin. Monroe. Creek cession of 1832.
Ashland. Heflin. Elba. .
Tuscumbia. Evergreen. Rockford. Andalusia. Luverne.
Cullman Dale Dallas
.
Jan. 24. 1877. Dec. 22, 1824. | Feb. 9. 1818.
John G. Cullman. of Alabama. Gen. Samuel Dale, of Alabama. A. J. Dallas.
.
.
Dec. 18, 1832.
.
. Barbour
STATISTICS OF COUNTIES OF ALABAMA --- Continued.
Name.
When Formed.
For Whom Named.
From What Territory Taken.
County Seat.
DeKalb
Jan. 9, 1836.
Gen. Johann DeKalb.
Elmore
Feb. 15, 1866.
John A. Elmore, of Alabama.
Escambia
Dec. 10, 1868.
Escambia River.
Etowah 6
Dec. 7, 1866.
Indian origin.
Fayette
Dec. 20, 1824.
Gen. Jean de La Fayette.
Franklin .
Feb. 6, 1818.
§ Benjamin Franklin, of Penn- ? 1 sylvania.
1 cession of 1816. S
Geneva Greene
Dec. 26, 1868 Dec. 13, 1819.
Swiss city.
Coffee. Dale, Henry. Marengo and Tuskaloosa. J Marengo, Greene, Perry, ? Tuskaloosa.
Hale
Jan. 30, 1867.
1
Henry
Dec. 13, 1819.
Patrick Henry, of Virginia. Gov. Geo. S. Houston, of Alabama. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Tennessee. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi.
Conecuh. Henry, Dale, Geneva. Cherokee cession of 1816. Blount.
Greensboro. Abbeville. Dothan. Scottsboro. Birmingham. Vernon.
Florence.
Lawrence
Feb. 6, 181S.
James Lawrence, of Vermont.
Moulton.
Lee .
.
Dec. 5, 1866.
Gen. Robert E. Lee, of Virginia.
Opelika.
Limestone . .
Feb. 6, 1818.
cession of 1816.
Lowndes .
Jan. 20, 1830. Dec. 18, 1832.
From creek with bed of lime rock Wm. Lowndes, of South Carolina. ( Senator Nathaniel Macon, of ( 1 North Carolina.
Butler, Dallas, Montgomery. Creek cession of 1832.
Athens. Hayneville. Tuskegee.
Originally "Baine." for General D. W. Baine, of Alabama; abolished December 3, 1867; reestablished with present name. December 1, 1868. " "Decatur county was created December 7, 1821; in 1824 abolished and merged into Madison and Jack- son; Woodville in Jackson county was the county seat. 8 Originally "Jones," for E. P. Jones, of Fayette; abolished November 13, 1867: reestablished as "Sanford." for H. C. Sanford, of Cherokee, on October 8, 1868; changed to present name February S, 1877.
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Cherokee cession of 1835. § Autauga, Coosa, Montgom- ? 1
ery, Tallapoosa. Baldwin and Conecuh. [ Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, ? DeKalb, Marshall, St. Clair Marion. Pickens, Tuskaloosa. J Chickasaw and Cherokee ?
Fort Payne. Wetumpka. Brewton. Gadsden. Fayette. Russellville. Geneva. Eutaw.
Houston
Feb. 9. 1903.
Jackson 7
Dec. 13, 1819.
Jefferson
Lamar 8
Dec. 13, 1819. Feb. 4, 1867.
Fayette and Marion. [ Chickasaw and Cherokee
Lauderdale .
Feb. 6, 1818.
Col. Jas. Lauderdale, Tennessee.
cession of 1816. Chickasaw and Cherokee cession of 1816. Chambers, Macon, Russell, Tallapoosa.
Chickasaw
and
Cherokee
Macon .
.
.
Gen. Nathanael Greene, of Georgia Stephen F. Hale, of Alabama.
Madison . . . | Dec. 13, 180S. Marengo Feb. 6, 1818. .
| James Madison, of Virginia.
Marion . .
Feb. 13, 1818.
French Battle. § Gen. Francis ¿ Carolina. [ Chief Justice John Marshall, 1 of Virginia.
Marion, South l 5
1 1
Mobile . .
Monroe
June 29, 1815. James Monroe, of Virginia.
Montgomery. Dec. 6, 1816.
Morgan 1
Perry .
Pickens . .
Feb. 6, 181S. Gen. Daniel Morgan. of Virginia. Dec. 13, 1819, Dec. 19, 1820. Com. O. H. Perry, Rhode Island. [ General Andrew Pickens, of l South Carolina. 5
Pike Dec. 7. 1821. ! Dec. 18. 1832.
Randolph Russell Dec. 18, 1832.
1 Gen. Z. M. Pike, of New Jersey. Sen. John Randolph. of Virginia. Col. G. C. Russell. of Alabama. [ Gen. Arthur St. Clair, Penn- ) sylvania. 5
Henry and Montgomery.
Creek cession of 1832. Creek cession of 1832.
Shelby.
Montgomery.
Choctaw cession of 1830.
Creek cession of 1832.
| Creek cession of 1832. ( Chickasaw and Choctaw l
cessions, 1816. Marion and Tuskaloosa.
i Choctaw cessions.
Dallas and Monroe.
Jasper. Chatom. Camden. Double Sp'gs.
1 Originally "Cotaco," of Indian origin; changed June 14. 1821.
2 Originally "Hancock." for John Hancock, who first signed the Declaration of Independence; changed January 22, 1858.
§ Chickasaw and Cherokee l 1 Cessions, 1805 and 1807. 1 Tuskaloosa.
Huntsville.
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