Autauga-County-Alabama

Autauga County Alabama

The word “Autauga” comes from the Indian village Atagi, located on the Alabama River at the mouth of Autauga Creek.

Autauga County Alabama Location

Autauga County is located in central Alabama. Its county seat is Prattville. The county was named after the Tawasee Indian town of Atagi, whose location is its southeastern corner. Autauga County is part of the Montgomery, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was created in 1818 from lands forcibly ceded by the Creek Confederacy in 1814 at the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

Autauga County Alabama History

As established, Autauga County included present-day Autauga County, as well as Elmore County and Chilton County. At the time, Autauga (aka, Tawasa) Indians lived here, primarily in a village named Atagi (meaning “pure water”) situated on the banks of a creek by the same name (called “Pearl Water Creek” by settlers). Autaugas were members of the Alibamu tribe. They sent many warriors to resist Andrew Jackson‘s invasion in the Creek War. This county was part of the territory ceded by the Creeks in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814. The first county seat was at Jackson’s Mill, but the court only met there long enough to select a permanent seat at Washington, built on the former site of Atagi in the southeast corner of the county. In 1830 the county seat was moved to a more central location at Kingston and the town of Washington dwindled until it was completely deserted in the late 1830s.

Daniel Pratt arrived in Autauga County in 1833 and founded the new town of Prattville, north of Atagi on the fall line of Autauga Creek. His cotton gin factory quickly became the largest manufacturer of gins in the world and the first major industry in Alabama. It was at his factory, and with his financial backing, that the Prattville Dragoons, a fighting unit for the Confederacy was organized in anticipation of Civil War. Other units formed in Autauga County included the Autauga Rifles (Autaugaville), The John Steele Guards (western Autauga Co.) and the Varina Rifles (northern Autauga Co.). None of the fighting of the Civil War reached Autauga County and Pratt was able to secure payment of debts from Northern accounts soon after the war, lessening the disabling effects of the Reconstruction period in the county.

Autauga County Alabama Native American History

There are many Native American archaeological sites in Autauga County, especially along the Alabama River. Early settlers reported seeing many mounds along the Alabama River. Today, many of these mounds are no longer visible because of 20^th century development. In addition to the large Native town of Atagi, during the early 1800s there were towns Halbama and Atoba. Halbama was possibly the origin of the name of the Alabama River.

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Millbrook is a city in Autauga County and Elmore County in the State of Alabama.

Millbrook Alabama Population

Located 10 miles north of Montgomery, the population was 14,640 at the 2010 census.

Millbrook Alabama History

Native Americans first settled the area in the mid-1600s. The area that now includes Millbrook was part of the Creek Indians town Coosawda. In 1763, European traders arrived in the area and began economic exchange with the Creeks and other Native American groups in the area. The first non-Indian settlements appeared in 1775 and were established largely by pioneers from Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 

Before the Civil War, Millbrook was largely a retreat from Montgomery. Situated between Alabama’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain physiographic sections, the area’s desirable climate now attracts more people every year.

Millbrook includes the former village of Robinson Springs within its boundaries. Numerous eras delineate Millbrook’s past.

The area’s first permanent home “Ellerslie” was completed in 1818 by Georgia Congressman, and Revolutionary War Veteran Bolling Hall. The area’s second permanent home “Thornfield” was started the following year, and completed in 1820 by pioneer Archibald McKeithen. Both homes still stand, and are private residences.

Millbrook Alabama Map

Millbrook Alabama Demographics

According to 2016 Census estimates, Millbrook recorded a population of 15,045. Of that number, 70.1 percent identified themselves as white, 26.9 percent as African American, 2.2 percent as Hispanic, 2.0 percent as two or more races, 0.6 percent as Asian, and 0.2 percent as Native American. The city’s median household income was $59,435, and per capita income was $27,985.

Millbrook Alabama Police Department

POLICE DEPARTMENT
3950 Grandview Road
Millbrook, AL 36054

The Police Department is located at 3950 Grandview Road. A dispatcher is on duty at all times and can be reached at 334-285-6832 for routine and administrative calls. If you have information concerning a crime and you do not wish to be identified, you may call the SECRET WITNESS NUMBER at 285-8500. The department employs approximately 33 police officers including three detectives, a School Resource Officer and one member assigned to the Central Alabama Drug Task Force.

P.K. Johnson
Chief of Police
334-285-5603

Johnny Montgomery
Assistant Chief
334-285-5603

Millbrook Alabama Municipal Court

COURT DEPARTMENT
3900 Grandview Road
Millbrook, AL 36054

The Honorable Benjamin Pool
Municipal Judge
334-285-6475

Tammy Pugh
Chief Court Clerk/Magistrate
334-285-6475

The Court Department is located in the Judicial Complex at 3900 Grandview Road and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays. The Municipal Court has jurisdiction involving three types of cases: traffic offenses, municipal ordinance violations and state misdemeanors. In general, a misdemeanor is a crime which is punishable by not more than one year imprisonment. Court is held on the first and third Thursday of each month beginning at 4:45 p.m.

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Washington, Alabama is a ghost town located in Autauga County, Alabama on the north bank of the Alabama River, just west of the mouth of Autauga Creek.

Washington was founded in 1817 on the site of the former Autauga Indian town of Atagi and named in honor of George Washington. On November 22, 1819, the Alabama territorial legislature chose Washington as the county seat of Autauga County, which it remained until 1830. A courthouse, hotel, jail, post office and pillory were constructed to meet the needs of the county government.

The county seat was moved to Kingston in 1830 in order to be closer to the geographic center of the county. Soon after, many citizens began to leave, and Washington was deserted by 1879. The post office in Washington was operated from 1824 to 1854.

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