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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AC2_town-of-hayneville_Hayneville-AL.html
In the 1820s, Hayneville was known as "Big Swamp." In 1830, after being chosen as the county seat of Lowndes County, it was named Hayneville for Robert Y. Hayne, governor of South Carolina and a U.S. senator. The incorporation of Hayneville as a t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM159A_holy-ground-battlefield_Hayneville-AL.html
Six miles North, on December 23, 1813,General F.L. Claiborne's army defeatedthe Creeks and destroyed the HolyGround Indian Village. One Americanwas killed and 33 Creeks. William"Red Eagle" Weatherford escaped byleaping on horseback into the rivera…