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Escambia County Alabama

Escambia County Alabama population is 38,319. Its county seat is Brewton, Alabama.

Historic American Indian tribes in the area included the Muskogean-speaking Creek, Choctaw, and Alabama, who had inhabited the lands for centuries and had many settlements. The former two tribes were among those in the Southeast whom the European-American settlers called the Five Civilized Tribes, as they adopted some European-American cultural ways in an attempt to survive alongside the encroachment of settlers moving into the area in the early nineteenth century. Most of these people were removed by United States forces in the 1830s to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Escambia County Alabama Native Americans:

Historic American Indian tribes in the area included the Muskogean-speaking Creek, Choctaw, and Alabama, who had inhabited the lands for centuries and had many settlements. The former two tribes were among those in the Southeast whom the European-American settlers called the Five Civilized Tribes, as they adopted some European-American cultural ways in an attempt to survive alongside the encroachment of settlers moving into the area in the early nineteenth century. Most of these peoples were removed by United States forces in the 1830s to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Escambia County Alabama Cities:

Atmore, Alabama

Atmore was founded in Escambia County, two miles from Florida state line in southern Alabama along Highway 31. Prior to the arrival of white settlers, the area was populated with Creek Indians.

William Larkin Williams

Following the Civil War in the 1860s, the Mobile & Great Northern Railroad extended its line south to the Tensaw River near Mobile. The first building on the site of present day Atmore was a small shed constructed along the railroad at which supplies were left for William Larkin Williams, who had a logging operation ten miles down in Florida. Just a supply stop along the railroad, it was simply called Williams Station in 1866.

Brewton, Alabama

Brewton is the county seat of Escambia County. It is located on the southern border of Alabama just north of the Florida Panhandle. The city has been voted one of the 100 best small towns in America. The area that now includes Brewton was originally part of the Creek Nation. In 1817, Gen. Andrew Jackson ordered the construction of Fort Crawford in the area, in the aftermath of the Creek War of 1813-14.

East Brewton, Alabama

Escambia County Alabama Towns:

Flomaton, Alabama

Flomaton is located in south-central Escambia County, in the southwestern corner of the state. It is situated less than a mile from the Alabama/Florida border. The town of Flomaton arose in 1869 at a junction of three railroad lines constructed by the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad.

The town went by several names, including Reuterville, Whiting, and Pensacola Junction, until April or May 1908, when it was incorporated as Flomaton, a combination of Florida and Alabama, with -ton added by the U.S. Postal Service.

Pollard, Alabama

Riverview, Alabama

Escambia County Alabama Communities:

Canoe, Alabama

Originally called Canoe Station, the settlement was a stop along the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad.During the American Civil War, Confederate forces operated out of the area and on March 27-March 28, 1865 10,000 Union soldiers camped in Canoe during the Canoe Rendezvous. During this 24-hour period several Union commanders brought together their forces which had been operating in the area and then moved on towards Blakely, Alabama. 

Dixonville, Alabama

Foshee, Alabama

Foshee is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Alabama, United States between Brewton and Pollard on U.S. Route 29. Foshee was founded as a sawmill town and named after Stewart J. Foshee, who owned several sawmills in Escambia County.

Freemanville, Alabama

Huxford, Alabama

Nokomis, Alabama

Nokomis is located along U.S. Route 31 and a CSX Transportation line 4.3 miles west-southwest of Atmore. Nokomis has the distinction of having boundaries in three U.S. counties: Escambia, Alabama; Escambia, Florida; and Baldwin, Alabama.

Spring Hill, Alabama

Wahl, Alabama

Escambia County Alabama Indian Reservation:

Poarch Creek Indian Reservation

Escambia County Alabama Webliinks

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Headstone of Morris Slater, AKA Railroad Bill, in St. John’s Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida photo by: Larry Massey

Morris Slater (known as Railroad Bill) was a train robber in the 1890’s.  None of his loot was ever recovered in the 6 years of his operation.  Many believe that the cash was buried in a cave.  The only clue left behind is that he never strayed far from the railroad trackes between Atmore and Bay Minette.  He was gunned down in 1896.

(A little bit more: Railroad Bill was an African American said to have lived between Pensacola, FL and Alabama and that he may have worked with a circus at some point during his life.  Stories began to surface around 1895 about an armed individual riding the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad line between Flomaton and Mobile. Caught sleeping on a water tank along the railroad on March 6, 1895, railroad employees attempted to restrain the man who fired on them and escaped after hijacking a train car.  This incident began a manhunt by railroad detectives that led a posse to Bay Minette, Alabama on April 6, 1895.  It was here that Baldwin County deputy sheriff James H. Stewart was killed in a gunfight.  After the lawman’s killing, the full attention of law enforcement and a $500 reward posted in Mobile identified him as Morris Slater, a convict-lease worker who fled from a turpentine camp in Bluff Springs in 1893 after killing a lawman. 

On July 4, 1895, E.S. McMillan, Brewton Sheriff, was fatally wounded. Railroad Bill became a “Robin Hood” like individual, robbing trains and reportedly selling good to impoverished people for prices lower than the local merchant stores as well as engaging in shoot-outs with lawmen and L&N personnel.  On March 7, 1896, Railroad Bill was gunned down by a host of law enforcement officials at Tidmore and Ward’s General Store in Atmore, Alabama.)

“Looking for Railroad Bill”: On the Trail of an Alabama Badman

Railroad Bill

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