Comitatul Washington, Alabama

Comitatul Washington, conform originalului din limba engleză, Washington County, (codul său FIPS este 01 - 129), este unul din cele 67 de comitate ale statului, Statele Unite ale Americii.Washington County a fost numit în onoarea întâiului președinte american, George Washington. Comitatul care este un "comitat uscat" (conform, dry county, un comitat unde servirea băuturilor alcoolice este interzisă) a fost fondat la 4 iunie 1800, de către guvernatorul teritoriului Mississippi, Winthrop Sargent. Comitatul Washington, este cel mai vechi comitat al statului Alabama, având, conform Census 2000, o populație de 18.097 de locuitori. Sediul comitatului este orașul Chatom.Istoric Washington County in Tombigbee District was established by proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sargent of the Mississippi Territory on June 4, 1800. It is the oldest county in the State of Alabama. Over two thirds of the adult men volunteered and served in the Confederate Army as of 1863, when the CSA was petitioned by a group of elderly men not to draft them, so they might serve as a sort of homeland militia. They stated in their petition that they were needed to protect against potential slave uprisings, inasmuch as the county was home to numerous plantations with large slave populations. The county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic. Washington County is home to the site of Old Saint Stephens, the first territorial capital of Alabama.