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1866

However Baine County was established on December 7, 1866, named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army, with its county seat in Gadsden.

Etowah County was created by an act of the Alabama State Legislature on December 7, 1866, from portions of Cherokee and DeKalb counties.

1867

The county was first organized under the name of Baine County, in March of 1867.

The town of Gadsden grew very slowly until after the formation of the county in 1867, when it was incorporated and received a fresh impetus.

The Times before its consolidation with the News was one of the oldest papers in the State, having been established in 1867.

The county was abolished in 1867, but a year later, Etowah County was created from the same territory.

1870

This enterprising and thriving town is situated on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, and not far from the center of Etowah County. It was founded in the year 1870, and was the outgrowth of the railroads that were being constructed about that period.

1871

The iron on the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad was laid in 1871, between Gadsden and Atlanta, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad.

1872

The town was incorporated as a city in 1872.

The first move made toward the establishment of a school and church at this place was in 1872 by Judge Henry Pickens.

1880

The News was established in 1880.

1885

After the Republican-Union had ceased to cast its effulgent beams upon the unfortunate, the people of Atalla were minus an organ wherewith their praises might be sounded, until 1885.

1886

Source: Bulletin, Geological Survey of Alabama, by Truman H. Aldrich, 1886 - Transcribed by Veneta McKinney

1887

The First National Bank of Gadsden was established April 1, 1887.

Source: Alabama As It Is by Benjamin Franklin Riley, D. D., 1887 , Transcribed by C. Anthony

1903

In 1903, Gadsden resident William Patrick Lay built his first hydroelectric plant on Big Wills Creek, which furnished the town of Attalla with electricity.

1908

Since there are no official death records before 1908 for deaths prior to that date you will need to determine death information from census records, bible records, funeral home records, cemetery tombstones, etc.

1936

The Alabama Department of Public Health can provide you with information for marriages that took place from 1936 to present by by visiting the marriage record page on their website and following the instructions.

1945

By the end of the war in 1945, the plant had produced more than 16 million shells.

1963

In 1963, Etowah County received national media attention when civil-rights worker William Moore was murdered near Attalla.

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