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Wetumpka, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Elmore. Associated ZIP codes: 36092, 36093.
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Wetumpka High School and Benjamin Russell High School, with histories dating back to 1902 and 1922, have established themselves as premier high school footba...
A Wetumpka man was killed Saturday morning when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by another vehicle, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
A young bear has been put down after being struck by a vehicle in Elmore County, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Wildlife and F...
The Benjamin Russell girls basketball team continued their summer playdates with a challenging trip to Wetumpka, facing tough competition in a multi-school e...
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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...
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Wetumpka is in Elmore County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
36092, 36093
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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...
Wetumpka, the seat of Elmore County, takes its name from the Muscogee Creek phrase we-wau tum-cau, "rumbling waters," believed to describe the roar of the Coosa River at the rapids called the Devil's Staircase, which could reportedly be heard for miles before dams turned the river into reservoirs in the 20th century. When the Creeks were forced west to Indian Territory, they named their main settlement there Wetumka after their old village. The Creeks' largest towns stood on the Coosa and at its meeting with the Tallapoosa, at Wetumpka and Talisi, now Tallassee.
After moving Mobile to Mobile Bay in 1711, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville sent an expedition up the Alabama River to build a fort in the interior to block British traders and court the Creeks. Fort Toulouse was built on the Coosa in 1714, four miles above its confluence with the Tallapoosa near the Creek village of Taskigi, and the French traded at Wetumpka and garrisoned the fort until 1763, when they ceded the territory to Britain. Scots and Irish traders such as McGillivray and Weatherford then married into prominent Creek families, and their descendants became important Creek leaders. The area passed to the United States in 1783 and became part of the Mississippi Territory in 1798, and after 1800 American settlers began arriving, many bringing enslaved laborers. The site of Fort Toulouse is now preserved in a park near Wetumpka, with a Native American mound. Sources Wikipedia: Wetumpka, Alabama The Historical Marker Database: The Mound at Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park
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