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Henry County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, its population was 17,302.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01/01067.html )〕 Its county seat is Abbeville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Its name is in honor of Patrick Henry (1736–1799), famous orator and Governor of Virginia. Henry County is part of the Dothan, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. == History == Between 1763 and 1783 the area that is now Henry County, Alabama was under the jurisdiction of the colony of British West Florida. Henry County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Territorial Legislature. The area was ceded by the Creek Indian Nation in 1814 under the Treaty of Fort Jackson. Henry County was formed before the State of Alabama was organized. The area that includes Henry County had historically been part of the Lower Creek Confederacy. It was occupied for thousands of years before that by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. Abbeville was designated as the county seat in 1833. Upon formation, Henry County was the largest county within Alabama, composing all or portions of the present counties of Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Houston, and Pike. When the youngest county of Houston was formed in 1903, Henry became the smallest. After 1814, the colonial settlers' developed Franklin as the first white settlement in the Creek territory. The former river port served Abbeville on the Chattahoochee River. Much of the original Henry County was part of the original Alabama wiregrass region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry County, Alabama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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