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Welcome
To
Dale County
Alabama
Genealogy and
History |
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Its name is in
honor of General Samuel Dale.
Its county seat and largest
city is Ozark.
The area now known as Dale County was
originally inhabited by members of the Creek Indian nation,
who occupied all of southeastern Alabama during this period.
The county, together with the surrounding area, was ceded to
the United States in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, ending
the Creek Indian Wars. A blockhouse had been constructed
during the conflict on the northwestern side of the
Choctawhatchee River during the war, and the first non-Indian
residents of Dale County would be veterans who began to settle
in the area around 1820.
Dale County was established on
December 22, 1824. It originally included the whole of what is
now Coffee County and the eastern half of Geneva County,
together with part of the "panhandle" portion of Houston
County. The original county seat was located at Dale's Court
House (now the town of Daleville), but when Coffee County
split from Dale in 1841, the seat was moved to Newton. Here it
remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869
and the formation of Geneva County, the county seat was
removed to the town of Ozark, where it
remains.
Municipalities and CDP's:
*
Ariton * Clayhatchee * Daleville
* Dothan (parts are also
in Henry County and in Houston County)
* Enterprise (part
is in Coffee County)
* Fort Rucker (U.S. Army base, treated
as a census-designated place)
* Grimes * Level Plains *
Midland City * Napier Field * Newton
* Ozark *
Pinckard
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Website
Updates:
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Feb 2013: Vietnam War
Casualties - Transcribed by Mary Kay
Krogman
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Marriage News: KING - DAVIS
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Jan 2013: Death News:
CARMICHAEL;
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Deaths of State Convicts
1910 - 1914 - Transcribed by Dawn
Conway
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Nov 2012: Community news:
Oldest citizen - JOHNSON; Crime News:
EASTERLING, WEED; Obit: FAIN; County History -
1893
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Oct 2012: 1883
Pensioners
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Sept 2012: Deaths: BANKS,
BECKMAN, DAVIS; Community news; Crime News;
DUNCAN, Sick List,
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Aug 2012: WWI Gold
Stars
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July 2012: Listing of
Churches, Post Offices, and Schools
Jan.
2012: Bio: BREARE;
October 2010: CEMETERY
Index; BEULAH Cemetery Burials -
CRAWFORD;
April 2009: Revolutionary
War SOLDIERS
Oct. 2008: VARIOUS births,
WALLER
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