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Limestone County Courthouse
Athens, Alabama
Telephone:
(256) 233-6406
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, by Thomas McAdory Owen
(Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921)
Limestone County was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General
Assembly on February 6, 1818. Formed from land comprising Elk County
that was created on May 24, 1817. Limestone County is west of Madison
County, north of the Tennessee River, and east of the western boundary
line of range six, west of the basis meridian of the county. An act of the
state General Assembly on November 27, 1821 gave to the county all of the
land belonging to Lauderdale County, in the fork of the Tennessee and Elk
Rivers, east of range six. Today Limestone County is bounded on the north
by Giles County, Tennessee on the east, by Madison County, on the south by
Morgan and Lawrence counties, and on the west by Lauderdale County.
The name of the county comes from the creek which flows through it, whose bed
is of hard limestone. Athens was chosen as the county seat in 1819. Other
towns of note are Belle Mina, Elkmont, Capshaw and Mooresville.
Special Thanks to Past CC ~ Cheryl Whitlock
