Baldwin County, Alabama Chronology
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Location: Baldwin, Alabama, United States
Surnames/tags: Baldwin_County Alabama
Location: Baldwin, Alabama, United States
Surnames/tags: Baldwin_County Alabama
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Chronology
This is the Chonology of creation and changes to Baldwin County, Alabama[1]
| .......Date......... | …. | Event |
| 21 Dec 1809 | BALDWIN created by Mississippi Territory from WASHINGTON. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 3/pp. 81-82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 96-97) | |
| 03 Mar 1817 | BALDWIN became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371) | |
| 07 Feb 1818 | BALDWIN gained all of Non-County Area 3 (formerly part of GREENE, Miss.). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21) | |
| 13 Dec 1819 | BALDWIN gained from CONECUH and MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640) | |
| by 29 May 1820 | BALDWIN lost to Mississippi when surveyors demarcated the southern segment of the Alabama-Mississippi line, fixing the end point ten miles east of the mouth of the Pascagoula River. This southern terminus is approximately 3.7 miles east of its prior location, an adjustment authorized in the act admitting Alabama to the Union on 14 December 1819. (Van Zandt, 108-109) | |
| 16 Dec 1820 | BALDWIN exchanged with MOBILE and MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 104) | |
| 21 Dec 1832 | BALDWIN gained from MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 50/p. 94) | |
| 10 Dec 1868 | BALDWIN lost to creation of ESCAMBIA, and lost small area to MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 34, sec. 1/p. 397) | |
| 18 Jul 1983 | BALDWIN boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1983, reg. sess., no. 83-533, secs. 1-3, 6/pp. 831-832) |
Sources
- ↑ Alabama: Individual County Chronologies; Alabama Atlas of Historical County Boundaries; John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor and Historical Compiler; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director; Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist and Digital Compiler; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant; Copyright The Newberry Library 2007; https://digital.newberry.org/ahcb/documents/AL_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#Individual_County_Chronologies
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