Author: C. P. McGuire

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781331957560

Excerpt from Records of Pickens County, Alabama, Vol. 3 Two great explorers walked upon the soil of (now) Pickens County, Alabama Bienville and DeSoto. Pickens County was formed from a part of Tuscaloosa County, while Alabama was still a Territory. Alabama was admitted into the Union on March 2, 1819.The County of Pickens was made a county in the second Session of the new state- December 19, 1820. The first Court was held in the house of Jacob Dansby, near Pickensville, which town remained the county seat until 1830 when Carrollton was made the permanent seat. The first election preecinet was held at the house of Cox, near Coldfire Creek, others were established as the County grew, and the next voting place was at the house of Charles M.Holland. A majority of the early emigrants were from South Carolina, from the upper District of York, Fairfield and Abbeville, especially the ones who settled near Pickensville, Yorkville and Bridgeville. And before 1820 there were more new comers from North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and even from Virginia. All of them mostly from the most respectable families of those states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.