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Pickens County was created by the
Alabama legislature on Dec. 19, 1819, out of Tuscaloosa County. It was
named for General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina, a hero of the
Revolution. The first county seat was established at Picken's Courthouse
(later called Pickens and Pickensville) and moved to Carrollton in 1830.
Neighboring Counties include Fayette,
Greene, Lamar,
Sumter and
Tuscaloosa in
Alabama and Lowndes and Noxubee
counties in Mississippi.
Early Settlers: The first white
settler in the county was Joseph Tilly who
was born in North Carolina or Tennessee about 1785, lived in Tuscaloosa and in
1817, settled on the bluff, now known as Tilly's Bluff, on the Tombigbee, about
half a mile above Pickensville. He was a trader among the Choctaws. The
second settler was Jonathan York, who settled near Tilly in 1818. Catherine, a
daughter of Jonathan York, was the first white child born in
the county. In the same year Robert Proffet came settling on the site of
Pickensville and John Barksdale settled near that place. Other settlers
also came in 1818, among these, Robert and William Ringold who settled on the
Tombigbee near Ringold's Bluff, Burwell Ball, Stephen P. Doss, James Robert and
Daniel Coxe, james Newman, Elijah Wilbanks and John G. Ring. After that year the
county was rapidly settled. The majority of the immigrants were from the
up country of South Carolina.
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