Phenix City_Timeline

Timeline

Early History, 1798-1933

1798	The land that will become Alabama is part of the Mississippi Territory.
1817	Congress creates the Alabama Territory.
1819	Alabama becomes a state.
	Traveler's accounts describe "Sodom" as a settlement of outlaws and runaway slaves across the river from Columbus, Georgia.
1832	Girard, near the location of Sodom, is established as a bordertown trading post with ferry access to Columbus.
1833	Horace King, a slave from South Carolina, builds the first bridge across the Chattahoochee River connecting Girard and Columbus.