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Rockford, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Coosa. Associated ZIP codes: 35136.
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Rockford is in Coosa County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
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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...
Rockford is the seat of Coosa County, which the Alabama Legislature created on December 18, 1832, from land the Creek Nation gave up in the Treaty of Cusseta. The county is named for the river on its western border, from a Native American word, kusha, believed to mean "canebrake," and Creeks lived in large numbers in the region before Alabama became a state.
The first county commissioners chose a site on a creek, which sources name as Hatchet Creek or Hatchemadega Creek, for the county seat and named it Lexington. In 1835 the seat moved to its present location, and the town became Rockford. In August 1839 the commissioners authorized a new jail, built of local stone and completed in 1842 at a cost of $2,745, with new ironwork added in 1857. It served for more than 90 years before closing in 1938, and in 1973 the Coosa County Historical Preservation Authority opened a museum in it. The Old Rock Jail, largely unchanged, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the oldest stone jail in Alabama. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Coosa County / Old Rock Jail (Alabama Historical Association) Wikipedia: Rockford, Alabama
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