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Lee County is a county located in east central Alabama.As of the 2020 census the population was 174,241. [1] The county seat is Opelika, [2] and the largest city is Auburn.The county was established in 1866 and is named for General Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865. [3]
Opelika (pronounced / ˌ oʊ p ə ˈ l aɪ k ə / OH-pə-LY-kə) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. [3] It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area.
The historic Scott-Yarbrough House, Pebble Hill, in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama. The population was 76,143 at the 2020 census. [3] It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area.
In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903. [6] Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3]
The Lee County Historical Society Museum is located in an 1845 general store in the Loachapoka historic district, located at "Pioneer Park," a six and-a-half-acre park of nine buildings and five gardens reminiscent of the 1850s in east central Alabama.
Location of Lee County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National ...
The Alabama deputy, whose quick thinking saved a mother’s unresponsive baby, will be Piedmont Columbus Regional’s First Friday Hero for December. Alabama mother recounts the day a Lee County ...
Smiths Station is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States.It is part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area.At the time of the 2000 census, it was still a census-designated place (CDP), and its population was 6,756.