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Pickens County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - Junction of Highway 17 and Highway 86, Carrollton, Alabama
Photo
taken- December 2006
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Pickens County
Courthouse
Erected
1877-78
Pickens
County, named for General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina, was
established December 19, 1820. First County Site
was
Pickensville. On March 5, 1830, the government awarded 80
acres of land at Carrollton for the County Site. The first
courthouse
was erected at Carrollton was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of
Union General John T. Croxton. A freedman,
Henry
Wells, was accused of burning the second on November 16, 1876.
He was arrested in January, 1878, and held in the garret
of
this building. Legend holds that as Wells peered out of the
North window at a mob gathering below, lightning struck
nearby,
indelibly
etching his image on the pane.
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