On This Day In Alabama History: Two Alabama Counties Incorporated

Alabama News Center | December 6, 2019 @ 10:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Dec. 6 brought us the incorporations of Montgomery County in 1816 and Cleburne County in 1866.

Montgomery County was created prior to Alabama statehood by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. It was named after Maj. Lemuel Montgomery, the first American soldier killed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Originally part of Monroe County, Montgomery County still covered most of what is now central Alabama. Later subdivisions of Montgomery County gave us Bullock, Crenshaw and Elmore Counties.

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