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Greene County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - 400 Morrow Avenue, Eutaw, Alabama
Photo
taken- January 2006
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign
A
County Older Then The State
Greene
County
Named
for hero, General Nathaniel Greene, who drove British from
Southeast. Area explored by DeSoto, 1540. Claimed
as
French
Louisiana, 1698. Ceded to England 1763. Ceded by Choctaw
Nation, 1816. Made a territorial county, 1819.
Eutaw,
county
seat is named for Greene's victory at Eutaw Springs South Carolina.
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