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Eufaula, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Barbour. Associated ZIP codes: 36027, 36072.
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Eufaula is in Barbour County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
36027, 36072
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Eufaula, on a bluff above the Chattahoochee River, takes its name from the Eufaula, one of three Muscogee Creek towns that occupied the site. By the 1820s the land was Creek territory, but so many white settlers had moved in illegally that in July 1827 federal troops were sent to remove them by force in the "Intruders War." The 1832 Treaty of Cusseta let settlers buy land from the Creeks, and by 1835 a store partly owned by William Irwin stood here, and the settlement was named Irwinton. After the Second Creek War drove the last Creeks from eastern Alabama, the town grew quickly, and many of its fine buildings were designed by architect George W. Whipple.
Steamboats landed here as early as 1828, and by the 1840s Eufaula was a leading river port, shipping thousands of bales of cotton by steamboat to Apalachicola and on to New York and Liverpool. In 1843 the legislature changed the town's name back to Eufaula, officially out of affection for the original name and possibly to avoid confusion with Irwinton, Georgia, and the town was incorporated as Eufaula in 1857. German Jewish families settled here in the mid-1800s, with the first burial in their cemetery in 1845. The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, begun with enslaved labor in 1860, was halted by the Civil War and finally reached the city in October 1871. Much of the antebellum town survives in the Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District, and Eufaula is now the largest city in Barbour County. Sources The Historical Marker Database: The City of Eufaula (Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the City of Eufaula) Wikipedia: Eufaula, Alabama
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