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Washington County Alabama

Washington County in Tombigbee District was established by proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sargent of the Mississippi Territory on June 4, 1800, making it the oldest county in the State of Alabama. The county was named in honor of George Washington, first President of the United States of America. Washington County is home to the site of Old Saint Stephens, the first territorial capital of Alabama. Its county seat is Chatom.

Old Washington County Courthouse,

County Road 34,Saint Stephens, Washington County, AL

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540

(**see note)

CITIES, TOWNS, AND POPULATED PLACES

* Chatom (county seat) * McIntosh * Millry * Calvert * Cullomburg * Deer Park * Fairford * * Fruitdale * Hobson * Leroy * Malcolm * St. Stephens * Sims Chapel * Wagarville * * Tibbie * Vinegar Bend * Cortelyou * Escatawpa * Frankville * Sunflower * * Wagarville * Yellow Pine *

GHOST TOWN

* Old St. Stephens * Wakefield *

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Website Updates: Feb 2025: Ads: ROBERTS; Marriages: Washington County Marriages: 1826 - 1830 Nov 2024: Biographies: MORRISETT Oct 2024: Visiting News: TURNER, STEELEY, WILSON, PALMER, STEADHAM,LOPER, PRICE, GRANADE, NIOLON; Ads: BOSWORTH, DUNN, WOOD, KIMBROUGH, WILSON, GRANADE, TOMPKINS, St. Stephens Hotel, TURNER, GOODS, FLINT Jun 2024: Death News: PEARCE; Sick List News: LOPER; Marriage News: GRANADE, SHOEMAKER; Land News: BYRD, POWE, BOYKIN, MOTT; Birth News: SMITH, ONDERKUNK, MCELROY; Ads: MOSELEY HOUSE, BROWN, PORTER, LIMBROUGH, BROMBERG, WOOD, DUNN, LACKLAND, WILSON, RYAN, Carson Hotel, PEARCE; Visiting News: TUCKER, RICHARDSON, WILSON, SMITH, MCELROY, STAPLES, PARKER, ROSSELL, GORDY, COATE, MCGLATHERY, BIZZELL, KILLOUGH, WITHERSPOON, FOSTER, SHIVERS Feb 2024: Slavery Records: Free Negro Slave Owners of 1830; Census: 1860 Mortality Schedule; Death News: LATHAM; Marriage News: LOPER, DEES, GARTMAN, YOUNG, KIMBROUGH, HILL; Census: 1816 Mississippi Territory Census Oct 2023: Ads: GRANADE, GRAY, SMITH, Chatom Hotel, PELHAM, CHASON, Turner Hotel, PRUITT, WILSON, TURNER, TUCKER, MOTES, JORDAN, Whatley Hotel, WHATLEY; Visiting News: MILLS, DONOVAN, KNIGHT, GORTMAN, DAUGHTERY, WADSWORTH, LAMBERT, HYATT, RONEY Jun 2023: Marriage News: HOLLAND, KNAPP, ROSS, BRYAN; Visiting News: SULLIVAN; Cemetery: BOWLING Cemetery: BOWLING, ACKERMAN, BASSETT, BLACK, ELLIOTT, FOSTER, GLOVER, JACKSON, LENOIR, LLOYD, MCVAY, PEARSON, ROBINSON, SAUCIER Feb 2023: Ads: BRYAN, DUNN, BROWN, PORTER, KIMBROUGH, BROMBERT, LACKLAND, WILSON; Visiting News: BAXTER, HERRING, COLSTON, WARD, SLAUGHTER, BOYKIN, TURNER, MCELROY, WOOD, PELHAM, COPELAND, SIGLER, SEAYMORE, BOWLING; Community News

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Surrounding Counties

* Choctaw County (north)

* Clarke County (east)

* Baldwin County (southeast)

* Mobile County (south)

* Greene County, Mississippi (southwest)

* Wayne County, Mississippi (northwest)

This print is from the Library of Congress. Mr. Endinger has submitted the following information for the photo:

**....I did enjoy seeing the photograph of the St. Stephens courthouse/Masonic Lodge. For many years, just to the left of the Masonic Lodge, as viewed in the photograph, was Roy McNeil's General Store. It was still very much in business when I was a child.

You might add the note that it is present-day St. Stephens. Old St. Stephens, which no longer exists, is now the site of a large park and was formerly a limestone quarry for Lone Star Cement Company.

Sincerely,
Joseph H. Endinger

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