Lottie stands at the highest elevation in Baldwin County on a ridge dividing waters that flow east into Pensacola Bay and west into Mobile Bay, and it is the source of Pine Log Creek. Pine Log Ditch began there and for more than 100 years carried floating logs to the Alabama River. In 1775, naturalist William Bartram followed the ridge path to Mobile along part of what is now County Road 47. This Indian trading path became part of the Federal Road in 1805 and later part of the Old Stage Road, with a stage stop in Lottie near the New Home Church. In July 1813, Col. James Caller led a militia group to camp at Davy Tate's cowpens in Lottie while waiting for reinforcements from Tensa, and his force of 180 men then continued up the Federal Road toward Burnt Corn Springs and south on the Wolf Trail to the ford on Burnt Corn Creek for the first skirmish of the Creek Indian War. Turpentining, logging, and farming were once central to Lottie's economy, and W.M. Carney Mill Co. operated a camp and turpentine still at Redtown with a school, store, and church. Three logging railroads crossed Lottie. Richard Bailey Dick Padgett, who was Creek Indian and English, was one of Lottie's first settlers. Earlier settlements in the area included Carney, Langham, Magic City, Pine Log, Red Town, and Taitsville, and the area was often called Head of Pine Log. In 1903, a post office was established and the community took the name Lottie, selected from the teenage girls' names as Lottie Presley's; Robert Mansfield Chambless became the first postmaster. Churches continue the community's legacy as former residents return each year for homecomings and to visit ancestors' graves in Lottie cemeteries.