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A
little about Montgomery, Alabama, Capitol City
Montgomery
County is the fourth largest of the 67 counties
in the state of Alabama. Only Jefferson, Mobile,
and Madison counties have larger populations. Montgomery
County's population, according to the 1990 census
was 209,085.
Montgomery County has a very colorful background.
Settlers first began to populate the area in the
early 1800s. The county of Montgomery was created
by an Act of the Legislature of the Mississippi
Territory on December 6, 1816. It was carved out
of Monroe County and originally embraced the whole
of central Alabama, east of the ridge dividing the
Tuscaloosa and Tombigbee Rivers from the Cahaba
River, west of the Okfuskee and Coosa, and south
of the mountains of Blount. However, it was soon
subdivided and portions were set apart which made
up Elmore, Bullock, and Crenshaw counties.
Montgomery
County was named in memory of Major Lemuel P. Montgomery,
of Virginia, who fell at the Battle of Horseshoe
Bend, on March 27, 1814. He was shot in the head
by a Redstick musketball, becoming the first man
to die in the battle. A statue of Major Montgomery
graces the entrance of the Montgomery County Courthouse,
located at 251 S. Lawrence St.
The
lands of Montgomery County were put up for auction
at the Federal Land Office in Milledgeville, Georgia
in 1816. Larger parcels were sold to developers
who subdivided the land into lots for urban commercial
and residential use, predetermining a major city
on the banks of the Alabama River at Montgomery.
A
hardy and superior class of people penetrated the
wilderness. Settlements and towns sprang into existence
everywhere. The City of Montgomery, which became
the county seat in 1822, was built on the side of
the Indian town Ikanatchati (Econachatee), which
means red ground, and Towasa on a high red bluff
known to Alibamu Indians as Chunnaanaauga Chatty.
Hernando DeSoto and his troops, who passed near
Montgomery in the autumn of 1540, were the first
Europeans to visit this region.
When
the Alabama Lands were offered for sale in 1817,
two groups of speculators made their initial payments.
One group, a company of Georgians led by General
John Scott, bought the area along the river bluff
and called it "Alabama Town." Later, a
second group, led by Andrew Dexter, bought the area
bounded by present day Court, Ripley, Scott, and
Jefferson Streets and named it "New Philadelphia."
The Georgians abandoned the Alabama Town and built
the town of East Alabama, in competition.
A
bitter rivalry between the two groups was finally
terminated when the two towns were merged under
the name Montgomery. Incorporated December 3, 1819,
eleven days before Alabama was admitted into the
Union, the city of Montgomery was named in honor
of Major Richard Montgomery of Revolutionary War
fame, who lost his life in the Arnold expedition
against Quebec.
