“The Junction”

For thousands of years, two important Indian trade routes crossed what became Etowah County. The High Town Path ran from Charlestown, S.C. west to the Mississippi River near Memphis, TN, and the Creek Path began at Pensacola, Fl. and ran northwest into the Ohio Country. Two miles west of this spot, on Big Wills Creek, the two routes formed a junction and became a combined path across Racoon (Sand) Mountain, where it divided again. By 1866-1867, two railroads were under construction and later crossed to form a junction, and in 1873 the town of Attalla was chartered.

Attalla, Alabama · United States