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ALABAMA Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value ALABAMA Fort Jackson MT(E)(May 8, 1816;Ms;Black) ALABAMA Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value ALABAMA Fort Jackson MT(E)(May 8, 1816;Ms;Black) . 600 *(L)(Nov. 18, 1816) . -- POPULATION 1810 – 9,000 1840 – 591,000 1820 – 128,000 1850 – 772,000 1830 – 310,000 1860 – 964,000 Fort Stoddert MT*(E)(July 24, 1805;Ms;Black)........1,200 (L)(Dec. 23, 1811)............................ 600 Fort Stoddert*(E)(June 9, 1807;Ms;Black) . 800 AS MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY *(L)(June 17, 1817)........................... 600 FORT STODDERt(E)(July 21, 1810;SL-46x4,MDD May 7, 1798 – August 14, 1817 below;FREE;Black) . .1,200 *(L)(March 1, 1813)...........................1,200 The following post offices, established during the Mississippi Ter- (No town marking, from Mobile, Spanish West Florida, to ritory period, were located within the present-day boundaries of Fort St Stephens)(May 18, 1812;--;8[ms]) . 1,111 the state of Alabama: Choctaw Trading House, Coffeeville, Cowe- ta, Fishers, Fort Claiborne, Fort Jackson, Fort Montgomery, Fort Stoddert, Hazel Green, Hickory Flat, Huntsville, Jackson, McIntosh Bluff, Meridian, Mobile, St. Stephens, Tensaw, Tuckabatchy, and Woodstown. Cowetah Ga(Oct. 13, 1807;Ms;Black) . 2,500 The site of the Lower Creek Nation town of Coweta, adjacent to or overlapping the 1813-1818 Fort Mitchell, is now occupied by the town of Fort Mitchell on the west bank of the Chat- tahoochie River in Russell County, Alabama. A post office was established at Coweta by February 4, 1807, and by late 1816 was serving not only the soldiers at Fort Mitchell, but the government employees of the Creek Factory just removed from Fort Hawkins, Georgia. When factor Daniel Hughes was Huntsville MT*(E)(March 5, 1812;Ms;--).............. 111 appointed postmaster in 1818 the Postmaster General also *(L)(Aug. 13, 1817) ............................ 111 designated Coweta a distributing office for mails passing be- HUNTSVILLE,(M.T.)(E)(Aug. 16, 1812;SL-38x3.5,MDD tween Alabama and Georgia. To facilitate the rapid transit of below;Black)...............................1,200 important mail between Coweta, Washington City and other *(L)(Sept. 13, 1812) . .-- points east, via Georgia postal routes, the Coweta office was HUNTSVILLE,M.T.*(E)(Nov. 12, 1813;SL-35x2.5,MDD administratively attached to the State of Georgia. To promote below;Black)...............................1,200 this object the Coweta postmasters used the Georgia state *(L)(Nov. 26, 1814) . .1,200 designation in their town markings and the Post Office Depart- HUNTSVILLE,M.(E)(Dec. 17, 1814;SL-29x2.5,MDD ment listed Coweta in the Georgia section of its directories. below;Black)...............................1,200 Later examples of such Post Office Department administrative *(L)(Feb. 13, 1815) . .1,200 attachment reflected in postmarks are Gratiot’s Grove, Ill. (in Huntsville*(E)(May 3, 1816;Ms;Black) . .-- Michigan Territory), Indian Territory markings employing the (L)(Aug. 22, 1816)............................. 111 designation “Ark”, and the Ft. KEARNY O.R. and Ft. LARA- HUNTSVILLE M.T.(E)(March 18, 1817;rough C-31.5, MIE/OR. markings of Unorganized Territory. close letters;Black) ..........................1,200 *(L)(March 26, 1817).............................-- Early Post Office Department records are sometimes confus- HUNTSVILLE M.T.(E)(April 11, 1817;rough C-31.5; ing and contradictory. For example, the postmaster appoint- Black) .....................................600 ment book indicates that Coweta was changed to Fort Mitchell *(L)(Aug. 9, 1817) . 600 on October 1, 1816 and later, on May 11, 1818, it shows that *Jackson MT(Sept. 26, 1816;Ms;Black) ................-- Coweata was “disc[ontinued] - see Fort Mitchell.” Also, the MOBILE(E)(Aug. 15, 1813;SL-27x5;Brown)..........1,200 1821 register lists John S. Porter as the postmaster in both *(L)(Sept. 27, 1814) . .-- Coweta and Fort Mitchell, which are both shown in Georgia. Mobile*(E)(July 20, 1814;Ms;Black) .................600 The records of the Coweta, Fort Mitchell and Creek Agency *(L)(Dec. 23, 1816) ............................600 post offices, all located within a three mile radius in an isolat- MOBILE.*(E)(Feb. 19, 1816;C-28;Black) . 600 ed portion of Alabama, are so muddled that the subject offers (L)(Nov. 11, 1816;Red) . 111 great potential for future postal history research. See also note under Creek Agency in statehood manuscript section. *Fishers P Office(Jan. 8, 1815;Ms;Black)...............-- *Fishers PO MT(E)(June 3, 1815;Ms;Black) . -- (L)(Sept. 7, 1815) . .-- *Fishers MT(Jan. 20, 1816;Ms;Black) . .-- *Fort Claiborne(E)(Sept. 11, 1816;Ms;Black) ............-- (L)(July 21, 1817) . .-- 1 ALABAMA Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value *Alabama Town(E)(March 23, 1819;Ms;Black)...........-- (L)(April 27, 1819)...............................-- *Big Spring Ala Ty(June 1, 1819;Ms;Black) . .-- Black Warrior AT*(E)(March 17, 1819;Ms;Black) . .350 (L)(June 19, 1819) . 350 *Black Warrior Falls AT(March 17, 1819;Ms;Black) . .-- St Stephens MT*(E)(Feb. 5, 1805;Ms;Black) .........1,200 BLAKELEY,(A.T.)*(E)(April 24, 1819;SL-37x3.5,MDD (L)(Feb. 12, 1817).............................600 below;Black)................................600 Ft St Stephens MT(Sept. 15, 1805;Ms;Black) . 1,200 (L)(July 24, 1819) . .600 St Stephens(E)(Jan. 23, 1806;Ms;Black) .............600 *Blakeley A(Oct. 30, 1819;Ms;Black) . -- (L)(July 2, 1817) . 600 *Cahaba(E)(Sept. 4, 1819;Ms;Black) ..................-- St STEPHENS MT*(E)(Aug. 28, 1806;SL-46x3;Black) . -- (L)(Nov. 3, 1819)................................-- *(L)(Sept. 12, 1807) . 1,200 *Chaktaw Trad House(E)(Aug. 11, 1818;Ms;Black) . .-- St. Stephens*(E)(June 3, c1814;SL-23x5,MDD below; (L)(Dec. 29, 1818)...............................-- Black) .......................................-- (L)(June 25, c1814)...........................1,200 St. Stephens(May 28, c1815;SL-60x5,MDD follows; Black) ....................................1,111 Tensaw MT*(E)(Dec. 12, 1808;Ms;Black).............600 (L)(June 18, 1817) . 350 Twickenham(April 5, 1811;Ms;Black) . .1,111 Twickenham was established on December 22, 1809. The name was changed by the legislature to Huntsville on Novem- *Claiborne(E)(Aug. 11, 1818;Ms;Black) . -- ber 25, 1811, several months after the Post Office Department (L)(Feb. 6, 1819)................................-- established a post office as Huntsville. CLAIBORNE./A.T.(May 5, 1819;29;Blue) .............600 Same*(E)(June 16, 1819;29;Black) . .600 ALABAMA TERRITORY (L)(Sept. 4, 1819) . .600 *Coweta Ga(July 13, 1819;Ms;Black)..................-- August 15, 1817 – December 13, 1819 See note under Coweta in Mississippi Territory above. *Evansville AT(E)(Oct. 4, 1818;Ms;Black) . -- Severed from the Mississippi Territory. There is no “official“ (L)(Feb. 28, 1819)...............................-- date for the establishment of the Alabama Territory. Its cre- Florence AT(E)(Sept. 6, 1819;Ms;Black) . 1,000 ation was unique and several dates have been considered. (L)(Nov. 8, 1819).............................1,000 The earliest date is March 3, 1817, when the general enabling *Fort Mitchell(Feb. 24, 1818;Ms;Black) . -- territorial act was enacted. At the other extreme is December See note under Coweta, this section. 10, 1817 when Mississippi was admitted as a state. The act *Fort Stoddert(E)(March 4, 1818;Ms;Black) .............-- of March 3 was not self-implementing, but conditioned on the (L)(Dec. 23, 1818)...............................-- formation of a Mississippi State Constitution and Government Hazel Green AT(E)(Jan. 29, 1819;Ms;Black) . 111 by a convention in the western part of the Mississippi Territory, (L)(June 25, 1819) . 111 together with notification to the President and action on his Hazel Green A(E)(Oct. 15, 1819;Ms;Black) . .350 part. Most historians believe this occurred on August 15, 1817. *(L)(Nov. 26, 1819) . 350 Some historians suggest a slightly later date, September 25, 1817, when the first territorial governor was commissioned by President Monroe. The most commonly accepted date is used here. The following post offices were in operation in Alabama during the Alabama Territory period: Alabama [Town], Athens, Big Spring, Black Warrior (name changed to Tuscaloosa), Blake- ly, Burnt Corn Spring, Cahaba, Choctaw Trading House, HUNTSVILLE A.T.(E)(Sept. 10, 1817;rough C-31.5; Coffeeville, Cotton Port, Courtland, Coweta (name changed Black) .....................................600 to Fort Mitchell), Eaglesville, Evansville, Fishers, Florence, *(L)(May 27, 1819) . 600 Fort Claiborne (name changed to Claiborne), Fort Dale, Fort Huntsville*(E)(Feb. 20, 1818;Ms;Black) . -- Jackson, Fort Montgomery, Fort Stoddert, Hardinsville, Hazel (L)(Nov. 25, 1819).............................350 Green, Huntsville, Jackson, Line Creek, Marathon, Meridian, (No town marking)(E)(June 21, 1819;--;Black).........350 Mobile, Monacks, Mooresville, Philadelphia, Pine Flat, Pleas- (L)(Nov. 22, 1819).............................350 ant Level, Russell’s Settlement, Selma, Somerville, St. Ste- Jackson A(Sept. 14, 1819;Ms;Black) . 350 phens, Suggsville, Tensaw, Triana, Washington Court House, and Woodstown. 2 ALABAMA Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value Town Postmark Dates Seen Size • Color • Value MOBILE. *(Dec. 3, 1817;28;Red) .....................-- BLAKELEY,A.(1820-25;SL-24X2.5;Black) . 300 Same*(E)(March 18, 1818;28;Black) . 600 BLAKELEY,(A)(1820;SL-32x3.5,MD below;Black) ......300 *(L)(Dec. 12, 1819) ............................350 BLAKELEY(1820-28;SL-24x2.5;Black) . 250 *Pleasant Level SA(Oct. 2, 1819;Ms;Black)
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