GREEN COUNTY AL.

Greene County named for Gen. Nathaniel Greene, a RI hero of the American Revolution, who led our troops at Guilford and Eutaw Springs and retook Charleston. It was formed on 13 December 1819 from parts of Marengo (formed 1818) and Tuscaloosa (formed 1818) Counties and from Indian land from the Choctaw Cession of 1816. Many men who came down the Natchez Trace with Andrew Jackson for the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, went back through Central Alabama looking for good land. Since settlers may have arrived there as early as 1812, records of the parent Counties could have some information on these first families. Blessed with fertile soil and level or rolling land, Greene County was the primary Alabama County for agriculture as late as 1845. Greene County is one of several Centralwest and Southwest Alabama Counties that were occupied by white settlers as soon as land was made available by Federal Treaty. Although there are no records to substantiate early occupation, Federal records indicate that title was granted for Greene County parcels of land as early as 1812 (note: this could be Greene Co. MS). Some occupation was possible from Spanish and French settlements to the South. In fact the French Colony at Demopolis from 1818 to 1830 was said to have extended into parts of Greene County. Pickens County was formed in 1820 from Tuscaloosa County, Sumter County was formed in 1832 from the Choctaw Indian Cession of 1830 and Hale County was formed in 1867 from Greene, Marengo, Perry and Tuscaloosa Counties.


Clinton (about 1819): A community of wealthy planters and small farmers with fine artesian wells along the Montgomery to Aberdeen stagecoach route, this town had 2 hotels, 4 dry-goods stores, a drug store, a saddlery, 2 churches and 2 schools. Its stately homes and mansions included the Pippen and Carpenter Plantations, which are State Landmarks. A fire in 1904 destroyed its business section, but some old churches remain, including the Concord Church and the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Cemetery.