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Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. It is near Lookout Mountain . At the 2020 census , the population was 14,877.
The city of Fort Payne, now the county seat, developed around a fort of the same name, built in the 1830s to intern Cherokee of the region prior to their removal. In the early 19th century, Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who independently created the Cherokee syllabary, a written system for his language, lived in this area. He had been born in a ...
The Fort Payne Residential Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama.The district represents both of Fort Payne's major periods of growth: the 1880s and 1890s, fueled by the area's mineral deposits; and the 1910s through the 1930s, bolstered by the development of the hosiery industry.
The Times-Journal newspaper is published twice a week [1] in Fort Payne, Alabama and serves the DeKalb County, Alabama region. The Times-Journal was a Southern Newspapers publication for 60 years before selling to Patrick Graham in 2019, [2] </ref> along with sister papers in Albertville and Scottsboro.
Cherokee Plantation is a historic house in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States.The house was built in 1790 as a two-story log cabin by Andrew Ross, a judge on the Cherokee Supreme Court and brother of Principal Chief John Ross. [3]
The Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial in Fort Payne, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1913, "erected through the efforts of the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, with the assistance of other interested citizens. The monument was originally located in the center of town and was moved to its present ...
The 2003 Alabama earthquake took place on April 29 at 3:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time (local time when the event occurred) eight miles (13 km) east-northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The number of people who felt this quake was exceptionally high as the earthquake could be felt in 11 states across the East Coast and as far north as ...
The Fort Payne Boom Town Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama.The district encompasses five properties built around 1889, when Fort Payne was undergoing huge growth owing to the area's mineral deposits.