Named for W. S. Deats, who first settled there and built a sawmill in 1841, Deatsville was located along a stagecoach route and near a creek that supplied water power for the sawmill.
Deatsville Alabama
Elba Alabama
Elba is the official county seat of Coffee County, though there are two county courthouses, with the other one being located in the town of Enterprise.
Map of The City of Old St. Stephens As It Appeared A.D. 1841
Owen Draper, 1942; Traced from a copy of the blue print drawn by E.M. Slaughter and M.J. Welsh in 1899