Whitaker Cemetery

Historical marker location:

New Hope, Alabama

( Marker is on Ikard Road, 0.3 miles north of Nebo Road, in the median.)

Marker installed: 2012

Madison County.

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.