Once the territorial capital of Alabama, Saint Stephens today is a ghost town. It is on the Banks of the Tombigbee River and situated on a high bluff which the Choctaw Indians called Hobucakintopa.
In 1803 the Choctaw Trading House was established at Saint Stephens and the Choctaw Agency in 1805. The post was active in the deerskin trade, back when a "buck" was worth a dollar. Saint Stephens became the territorial capital in 1817, before Alabama was a state. A 200 acre park preserves the site.
I was here in early December, 2004, on a road trip around the state in which I completed visiting last half dozen or so of Alabama's 67 counties.
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