Perry County (Alabama)

Perry County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,591. Its county seat is Marion. The county was established in 1819 and is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy.HistoryThe Perry County town of Marion was the site of a 1965 killing of an unarmed black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a white state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, which sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a Barack Obama Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November.GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, of which is land and (0.6%) is water.Major highways20px U.S. Highway 8020px State Route 520px State Route 1420px State Route 6120px State Route 17520px State Route 18320px State Route 21920px State Route 289