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Robert Thomas Scott, Sr., Scottsboro's founder and first city planner, and his wife Elizabeth built the pre-Civil War home White Cottage here about 1850. Robert T. Scott died in June 1863 of heat exhaustion after Yankee soldiers burned his home and forced him to pull a Union wagon to Scottsboro. In accordance with his vision and wishes, Elizabeth Scott gave the land for the courthouse, the jail, and several lots around the public square, helping facilitate the 1868 move of the county seat from Bellefonte to Scottsboro.
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Scottsboro, Alabama · United States
