Washington
Washington County, Alabama’s oldest county, is where the territorial capital, St. Stephens, was located from 1817 to 1819. Visitors can tour the active archaeological site in St. Stephens Historical Park. Artifacts related to area’s history, including a 750-year-old Native American canoe, are on display at the historical museum located in the county courthouse at Chatom. One of the state’s few remaining log churches and a historic marker for the location where former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was arrested, in 1807, on charges of treason are found in the community of McIntosh.
