Cities & Towns

Henry County SiftingsBy: T. Larry SmithHenry County’s Official Historian Courtesy: Abbeville Herald, May 7, 2020 The attached image depicts Headland, Alabama’s first land owners to patent their land receiving the very ·first official land deed from the U.S.  Government land patent office for south Alabama.  These were the first people to receive the first official deeds to land located…

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Within the present boundaries ofHenry County, Alabama By T. Larry Smith Abba –  Abba was located on County Road 65. Abberdeen – General Alexander Curry Gordon acquired large land holdings west and north of Abbeville and moved to a place called Ward’s Crossroads.  He named his huge home “Aberdeen.”  The village that grew around the crossroads became known as…

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