Prosperity Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Marion Junction, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from County Road 189, 0.4 miles west of County Road 45.)

Marker installed: 1996

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.