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A little about Dothan

Ideally located in Southeast Alabama, Dothan offers to both visitors and travelers excellent dining, shopping, attractions, historic, musical and arts events, award-winning sports facilities hosting both amateur and professional events, and affordable accommodations.

The history of Dothan

The area that is now Dothan was inhabited for thousands of years by successive cultures of indigenous peoples. In historic times it was occupied by the Alabama and Creek Native American tribes who were hunters and gatherers in the vast forests of pine that covered this region. These tribes had developed complex cultures, and often used to meet and camp for trading near a large spring at the crossroads of two trails. The first permanent white (European-American) settlers consisted of nine families who moved into the area during the early 1830s to harvest the abundant timber. Their settlement, named "Poplar Head" after the spring, failed to thrive and was all but abandoned by the time of the Civil War.

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