Cherokee County Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

1200 County Road 251, Cedar Bluff, Alabama

( Memorial is on County Road 251, 0.1 miles north of County Road 714, on the right when traveling north.)

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.