Lowndes
Lowndes County is in the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt region. A major battle in the Creek War of 1813-14 took place on a bluff above the Alabama River at Holy Ground. Fort Deposit, now the county’s largest city, started as a military fort built on the Old Federal Road in 1813. The salvaged cupola of Alabama’s first capitol building still tops the CME church in the Lowndesboro Historic District, which includes many structures listed on the National Register of Historic Place. Also on that list is the county courthouse in Hayneville, built in 1856. The county’s role in the civil rights era of the 1960s is highlighted at the Lowndes Interpretive Center established by the National Park Service in White Hall.
