Dallas County Alabama

Dallas County Alabama

Dallas County population is 43,820. The county seat is Selma. Its name is in honor of United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas, who served 1814-1816.
The county is traversed by the Alabama River and bordered by Perry, Chilton, Autauga, Lowndes, Wilcox, and Marengo counties. Originally, the Dallas county seat was at Cahaba, which also served as the state capital for a brief period. In 1865, the county seat was transferred to Selma. Other towns and communities in the still mostly rural county include Marion Junction, Sardis, Orrville, Valley Grande, and Minter.
Cities: Selma, Valley Grande
Towns: Orrville
Communities: Beloit, Bogue Chitto, Browns, Carlowville, Crumptonia, Elm Bluff, Marion Junction, Minter, Plantersville, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, Safford, Sardis, Selmont-West Selmont, Summerfield, Tyler

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Dallas County

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Edmund Pettus Bridge: 32.405556, -87.018611

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	Edmund Pettus Bridge This bridge across the Alabama River is noted for being the site of a bloody encounter during a civil rights march in 1965, an event influential in the passage of that year’s Voting Rights Act.