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Blount County was created on Feb. 7, 1818, by the Alabama Territorial Legislature from lands ceded by the Creek Indian Nation. It was named for Tennessee Governor W. G. Blount, who sent militia under Andrew Jackson to punish the Creeks for the Fort Mims massacre. Jackson fought and won the Creek War, and the Creek gave up half of their lands in the Treaty of Ft. Jackson in 1814. Some of Jackson's men were the first settlers of Blount, and the county seat moved here in 1889.
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