On November 21, 1818, William Wyatt Bibb, Governor of the Alabama Territory, signed into law a bill dividing Montgomery County and stipulating that a certain portion, a "tract of country laying north west of the Alabama river," was to be designated Autauga County. In signing this act, Governor Bibb was unknowingly opening a most memorable century. Towns sprang up along the western banks and became important river ports and several large plantations soon appeared in the county. Vital to the growth of Autauga County, however, was the fact that in the 1830's a young man from New Hampshire decided... View More...
