Q: How did Dale County get its name?
A: The county is named in honor of Samuel Dale , a scout, frontiersmen, soldier, and public servant who played an important role in carving the state of Alabama out of the Mississippi Territory.
People are also reading… According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama article, Samuel Dale was born in 1772 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where his Scots-Irish parents Samuel and Mary O’Brian Dale had recently moved from Pennsylvania. “The business prospered enough that Dale could invest in a trip to trade among the Creeks in 1799,” the article says. “Soon thereafter, in response to the increasing migration of settlers from Georgia and the Carolinas into the Mississippi Territory, Dale contracted to bring families into the territory by wagon and then return to Savannah with Indian trade goods.”
In July 1813, Dale was wounded in the first engagement of the Creek War during the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek when his militia unit ambushed Creek warriors returning from Pensacola, then in Spanish West Florida, where they had purchased gunpowder and supplies from the Spanish. “On a reconnaissance mission, Dale, Jeremiah Austill, James Smith, and a free black man named Caesar were separated from their main force when they came upon a party of Creeks paddling down the Alabama River in present-day Monroe County,” the article says. “Dale’s party, although outnumbered, killed all of the Indians remaining in the canoe to the cheers of their fellow militiamen viewing the action from the opposite bank of the river.
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