Clarke County Alabama

Clarke County has a history as rich as the soil along the banks of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers, which form its boundaries. The county’s history began long before Alabama’s statehood. Hundreds of years before white settlers arrived, Indians in the area of what is now Tallahatta Springs, near Thomasville, fashioned arrowheads and spear points from the Tallahatta stone and traded them for other goods with other tribes from across the region. Some scholars believe that the Battle of Mauvilla, fought between Hernando De Soto’s men and Native Americans in 1540, took place right here in Clarke County.

Clarke County is bordered on the north by Marengo County and to the northeast by Wilcox and a small portion of Monroe County. It is separated from the remainder of Monroe County and north Baldwin County by the Alabama River and from Choctaw and Washington Counties by the Tombigbee River. It is somewhat triangular in shape, with a width of some 40 miles across the north and extending southward about 60 miles to the junction point of the two rivers.