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Russell County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 59,183. [1] Its county seat is Phenix City. [2] Its name is in honor of Colonel Gilbert C. Russell, who fought in the wars against the Creek Indians. Russell County is part of the Columbus, GA-AL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Phenix City is located at (32.472822, −85.020121 It is the easternmost settlement in the state of Alabama as well as the Central Time Zone, but it and some other nearby areas unofficially observe Eastern Time, as these areas are part of the metropolitan area of the considerably larger city of Columbus, Georgia, which is in the Eastern Time Zone and adjacent to the city across the ...
In 1866, Seale was chosen as the new seat of Russell County. The new courthouse was completed in 1869, and wings were added in 1908. After the merger of Girard and Phenix City in 1923, there was pressure to move the seat to the much larger, but not centrally located Phenix City. Phenix City became the seat in 1935, but the Seale courthouse ...
Russell County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Alabama) Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Расселл (гуо, Алабама) Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Russell County, Alabama; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Liste der Countys in Alabama; Phenix City; Russell County (Alabama) Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Orte im Russell County (Alabama) Usage on el.wikipedia.org
Location of Russell County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Russell County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Russell County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Robert Edward Jenkins, who had escaped from a work detail in Forsyth, was later arrested in Phenix CIty. After chase and crash, local authorities catch escaped Georgia inmate in stolen truck Skip ...
Fort Mitchell is about 10 miles south of Phenix City, Alabama and Columbus, Georgia; Fort Moore lies on the opposite side of the Chattahoochee River from Fort Mitchell. The community is the home of the Fort Mitchell National Cemetery , established in 1987 for interment of all US veterans.
Alabama Governor (1951–1955) Gordon Persons. On July 22, 1954, a limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, by Governor Gordon Persons.The county, particularly Phenix City, had become lawless, and Persons lost faith in the local law enforcement, which had been implicated in illegal gambling syndicates, political corruption, and the murder of Albert Patterson, the ...