Governors Park

Historical marker location:

631 E Barbour St, Eufaula, Alabama

( Marker is on East Barbour Street (U.S. 82), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1966

1966.

The first European settlement in Alabama was established in 1702 by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile, which is now the city of Mobile. It was named after Louis XIV of France and was the capital of French Louisiana until 1711.