Butler County Alabama – Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com Alabama Cities, Counties, Folklore, History, Maps, Stories and Travel Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:50:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/02/alabama-coat-of-arms-60x60.jpg Butler County Alabama – Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com 32 32 Greenville Alabama /alabama-cities/greenville-alabama/greenville-alabama/11318 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 02:23:11 +0000 /?p=11318 Greenville is a city in Butler County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 8,135. The city is the county seat of Butler County and is known as the Camellia City. First settled in 1819, Greenville prides itself on its historic downtown area.

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Greenville Alabama is a city in Butler County, Alabama. At the 2010 census, the population was 8,135. The city is the county seat of Butler County and is known as the Camellia City.

Greenville Alabama History

Greenville Alabama was first settled in 1819. Its original name was Buttsville, but after becoming the county seat in 1822, its name was changed to Greenville, in remembrance of the former locale in South Carolina of many of the original settlers. The first county seat was at Fort Dale, a A Militia Fort established in 1818 near Greenville, Butler County, Alabama that was named for Sam Dale, who fought to defend the area during the Creek War. Alabama Territorial Governor William Bibb directed Colonel Samuel Dale to establish a new fort on the Federal Road to strengthen the local defenses against hostile Indians. The site of Fort Dale, abandoned as a fortification in 1818 when hostilities ceased,  lies on the north of the city near the Fort Dale Cemetery, along what is now Alabama Highway 185.

The namesake of the county, Captain William Butler, was killed during the Creek War. He is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, which is across from the oldest church in Butler County, the First United Methodist Church of Greenville.

During World War II, a satellite camp for German prisoners was based in Greenville.

 

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Wikipedia contributors, “Greenville, Alabama,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenville,_Alabama&oldid=787754949 (accessed

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BUTLER COUNTY ALABAMA /alabama-counties/butler-county-alabama/butler-county-alabama/1265 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:37:24 +0000 /?p=1265 The first settlers came to the Butler County Alabama via the Federal Road from Georgia and the Carolinas after the Creeks were defeated in the war. Threatened by white settlement, a Creek war party attacked and killed two families in March 1818 in what became known as the Ogly Massacre.

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Butler County Alabama
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Butler County was formed from Conecuh County, Alabama, and Monroe County, Alabama, by an act passed December 13, 1819, by the Legislature while in session at Huntsville. This was the first session of the Legislature of Alabama as a State. The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler.

 

Butler County Alabama Cities:

Greenville, Alabama

Located just half an hour south of Montgomery – where I-65, U.S. 31 and Alabama’s Highway 10 converge – Greenville is the county seat of picturesque Butler County.

Butler County Alabama Towns:

Georgiana, Alabama

Georgiana is located in Butler County in southern part of the state. It has a mayor/city council form of government. Georgiana is the birthplace of legendary country music star Hank Williams.

McKenzie, Alabama

McKenzie straddles the border in south-central Butler and northeast Conecuh County in the south-central part of the state; most of the town is in Butler County. The town of McKenzie sprang up around a branch line of the Alabama and Florida Railroad to Andalusia, Covington County, around 1899. Originally called Persimmon Creek, in 1900 the town was named after Bethune Beaton McKenzie, a Civil War veteran, a civil engineer responsible for building a number of railroad lines in Alabama, and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901.

Butler County Alabama Communities:

Chapman, Alabama

Chapman is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama. Chapman is located on County Route 37, 2.9 miles west-northwest of Georgiana. Chapman has a post office with ZIP code 36015.

Chapman is located on the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was founded as a lumber town. It was the headquarters of the W. T. Smith Lumber Company, one of the oldest lumber firms in Alabama. At one point, Chapman contained three sawmills, a veneer mill, a box factory, two barrel factories, and forty-four company houses. 

Forest Home, Alabama

Forest Home is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama. There is a brief but informative history of Forest Home, Alabama available here.

Spring Hill, Alabama

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