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Dead Towns. Within the present boundaries of. Henry County, Alabama. By T. Larry Smith. Abba – Abba was located on County Road 65. Abberdeen – General Alexander Curry Gordon acquired large land holdings west and north of Abbeville and moved to a place called Ward’s Crossroads. He named his huge home “Aberdeen.”.
Former company town for W.P. Brown and Sons Lumber Co., some plots still visible near intersection of Tabernacle Road and Brownville Pike Road in Northwestern Tuscaloosa County Cahaba: Dallas: 1819: 1865: Abandoned: First capital of Alabama, from 1820-1826 Cedric: Randolph: Four miles southwest of Roanoke Centerdale: Morgan: Chandler Springs ...
County Number 37 on Alabama Licence Plates. Henry County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 17,146. [1] Its county seat is Abbeville. [2] The county was named for Patrick Henry (1736–1799), famous orator and Governor of Virginia.
It was erected on the square in 1926 as a tribute to the town's military dead. The square was paved in 1935. As of the 1960 U.S. census, Headland had grown into Henry County's largest city, narrowly edging out Abbeville, which had been the largest since Dothan was removed into Houston County in 1903. Headland lost that distinction to Abbeville ...
Dead Towns. Within the present boundaries ofHenry County, Alabama By T. Larry Smith Abba – Abba was located on County Road 65. Abberdeen – General Alexander Curry Gordon acquired large land holdings west and north of Abbeville and moved to a place called Ward’s Crossroads. He named his huge home “Aberdeen.”
History of Henry County, Alabama. Henry County was created on 1819 Dec. 13. The original county was vast in size, until its boundaries were reduced by the establishment of the counties of Pike and Covington in 1821, by Dale in 1824, by Barbour in 1832 and Houston in 1903. The county was named for Revolutionary War patriot Patrick Henry (Virginia).
1. Little Rock, Alabama Marker. Inscription. The now dead town of Little Rock stood here, along a vital Native American trading route which joined northeast Henry County to the Gulf. A U.S. Post Office opened here on April 10, 1820. Amos Wheeler was the first postmaster,succeeded by Henry W.Conway on October 17, 1822.
