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Welcome
To
Randolph County
Alabama
Genealogy and History
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Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
This Site is Available for Adoption
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for
the free use of all researchers.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project
be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information
and then contact
Kim.
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire
to transcribe data is required)
We hope you will consider
contributing your Obits, Biographies and
Pioneer Family History.
Send your
contributions to Christina
We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for
folks.
All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank
you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site.
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Alabama is covered under our "Southern States" mailing list.
Randolph County was established by the Alabama Legislature on
December 18, 1832, and named in honor of James Randolph, a Virginia congressman. Randolph County was one of several
counties created out of the last Creek cession formulated by the Treaty of Cusseta, on March 24, 1832. It lies
within the Piedmont region, which extends from Alabama to Pennsylvania.
The first county seat for Randolph County was established in 1833 at Hedgeman Triplett's Ferry on the west bank
of the Big Tallapoosa River, about 10 miles west of Wedowee. In 1835, the county seat was moved by the commissioners
to nearby Wedowee. Wedowee lies in the center of Randolph County, on a fork of the Little Tallapoosa River. Wedowee
was named after a tribal chief "Wah-wah-nee" (or "Wah-dow-wee") whose village stood near the
present site of the town.
Towns and Cities:
* Roanoke * Rock Mills * Wadley * Wedowee
* Woodland
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