Hayden Cemetery

Historical marker location:

New Hope, Alabama

( Marker is on Hayden Cemetery Road, 0.1 miles west of Poplar Ridge Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2005

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.