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This website needs a host.
If you like to transcribe genealogical data for the free use of all researchers and can make a basic webpage, please view our Volunteer Page and contact Kim.

If you can't be a County Coordinator, you can still be a great deal of help. We need volunteers who will ferret out Calhoun County History of any kind..... who will find interesting documents to transcribe and email to us so we can place it here online.

In the meantime, we'll be doing our best to create a website that you will find helpful, useful and meaningful as you trace your ancestors. Our goal with our websites is to add enough raw data that you will be able to trace your ancestors through time - wherever their trails led them! What we can do is try to provide the data and early history to help you along. At the same time we hope you will share what information you have that might be of help to others.

Brief History:

Calhoun county is named in honor of John C. Calhoun, member of the United States Senate from South Carolina. Its county seat is Anniston. Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri, with its county seat at Jacksonville. Benton, a slaveowner, was a political ally of John C. Calhoun, another slaveholder and a U.S. senator from South Carolina. Through the 1820s-1840s, however, Benton's and Calhoun's political interests diverged, with Calhoun increasingly using secession as a weapon to maintain and expand slavery throughout the United States. Benton, on the other hand, was slowly coming to the conclusion that slavery was wrong and that preservation of the union was paramount. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. The county seat was moved to Anniston after years of controversy and a State Supreme Court ruling in June 1900.

CITIES AND TOWNS in CALHOUN COUNTY.....
Alexandria	Anniston	Blue Mountain	Bynum
Glencoe (part of Glencoe is in Etowah County)	Hobson City	Jacksonville	Ohatchee
Oxford (part of Oxford is in Talladega County)	Piedmont (part of Piedmont is in Cherokee County)	Saks	Southside (part of Southside is in Etowah County)
	Weaver	West End-Cobb Town
SURROUNDING COUNTIES
	Cherokee County (northeast)	Cleburne County (east)
	Talladega County (south)	St. Clair County (west)
	Etowah County (northwest)	Back to Alabama Trails

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