The first county seat for Randolph County was established in 1833 at Hedgeman Triplett's Ferry on the west bank of the Big Tallapoosa River, about west of Wedowee.

In 1835 ( 2 years later ), the county seat was moved by the commissioners to nearby Wedowee.

Wedowee was originally settled in the 1830s.

Wedowee, which means " old water " in the Creek language, derives its name from a Muscogee Creek Indian chief.

Robert Heflin died in 1901 near Wedowee, Alabama, and his remains were interred in the Masonic Cemetery in Wedowee along with his first wife Elizabeth Phillips Heflin and Mentoria Reeves Heflin.

A historic marker now stands on the site of his family's home along N. Main Street ( U. S. Route 431 ) in Wedowee.

File: Wedowee Alabama Governor William Hugh Smith Historic Marker. JPG | This historic marker marks the site of the home of William Hugh Smith, 21st Governor of Alabama ( 1868-1870 ).

Located along N. Main Street ( U. S. Route 431 ) in Wedowee, Alabama, this historic marker marks the site of the former home of William Hugh Smith.

Wedowee is a town in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.

The citizens of the area had a difficult time reaching the county seat of Wedowee in Randolph County because of the Tallapoosa River to the east.

Clay County is home to parts of Cheaha State Park in the Talladega National Forest and Lake Wedowee on the eastern boundary.

Its county seat is Wedowee.

Wedowee lies in the center of Randolph County, on a fork of the Little Tallapoosa River.

Randolph County is home to Lake Wedowee, a section of the Tallapoosa River.

Wedowee's recent popularity has come as the result of Lake Wedowee created by the impoundment of the Tallapoosa River.

Also known as the R. L. Harris Reservoir, the lake draws thousands of visitors to Wedowee every year.

Wedowee is located on the Piedmont Plateau and considered part of the Appalachians foothills.

Wedowee is located at ( 33. 308603 ,-85. 485447 ).

Smith moved with his parents to Wedowee in 1839, at the age of 13.

He read law under John T. Heflin of Wedowee.

The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle, which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

The omelet named for Ernest Arbogast, the Palace's chef, was even more in demand.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

There was a fellow named Blatz over Smithtown way.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

Asked who this was, she named Harrington.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.