Alabama History and State Facts

Bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and by the state of Florida, on the East by the state of Georgia, on the North by the states of Tennessee, and and the west by the state of  Mississippi.
  

One suggestion is that the name comes from the Indian term meaning A Place of Rest.  According to the Alabama state website, Alabama was the name of an early Indian tribe that inhabited the the area that is now central Alabama at the time of the early European explorers.

The first settlement in 1702 at Mobile Bay was established by the French.

Alabama Territory was created in 1817 and became the twenty-second state on December 14, 1819.  Alabama has had five capitals since becoming a territory.  The first territorial capital was Saint Stephens in southwest Alabama.  The current capital has been Montgomery since 1846.

Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861, and Montgomery was named the capital of the Confederate States of America.

Population - 1820      127,901

Population - 1840       590,756

Population - 1890   1,513,017

Population - 1910   2,138,093

Population - 1920    2,347,295
  

Alabama Genealogy on GeneaSearch:

Alabama State Officials in 1899

Alabama Government Officers in 1903

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