Fort Payne, Alabama

DeKalb County

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Fort Payne is a city in DeKalb County and the county seat of administration ( County Seat) in the U.S. state of Alabama.

History

The site of Fort Payne, was originally an important Cherokee village of Willstown that the house of the famous Cherokee Sequoyah was during a time that the Cherokee alphabet invented. During the Indian Removal (or the Trail of Tears ) during the fort in 1830 s. A. was built in the city by the forces that Major John Payne were ordered and used as a concentration camp in which set the Cherokee until they could be removed to Oklahoma.

Fort Payne experienced explosive growth in the late 1880s, as investors and workers from New England and the northern United States overran the region to take advantage of coal and iron deposits that had been discovered a few years earlier. Many of the remarkable and historic building in Fort Payne today were built during this period, including the oldest standing theater in Alabama, Fort Payne Opera House.

In the modern era, the city is famous for mills producing socks. About half of the socks that are manufactured in the United States, formed in Fort Payne. The city also produces truck body, steel products and other goods. It is famous as the capital of the superstar country music band Alabama.

Fort Payne is the position of the Little River Canyon National Preserve ( Little River Canyon National Park ).

Transport

• Interstate 59
• U.S. Highway 11
• Alabama State Route 35
• Norfolk Southern Railway
• Isbell Field ( Municipal Airport )

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fonty Flock, NASCAR driver
• Tim Flock, NASCAR racing driver and two-time champion in the Winston Cup