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Limestone County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - 310 W Washington Street. Athens, Alabama
Photo
taken- January 2006
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign
A
County Older Then The State
Limestone County
created
Feb. 6, 1818
by
Alabama Territorial Legislature
from
lands ceded by Cherokee Nation 1806 and by Chickasaw Nation in 1816.
Named
for creek (and its limestone bed) which runs through the
county. Few settlers here until Indian treaties. Athens
became
county
seat in 1818. Limestone was first Alabama county to be
occupied by Federal Troops during the Civil War.
Alabama
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