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Fort Payne

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Fort Payne, city, seat (1876) of DeKalb county, northeastern Alabama, U.S. It is situated in Big Wills Valley between Lookout and Sand mountains, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Huntsville. In the 1770s the area was known as Wills Town. Sequoyah devised the Cherokee alphabet there in 1809–21. The Treaty of New Echota in 1835 ceded the Cherokee lands to the United States, and in 1838 a stockade was built on the site of the city. It was named for Captain John Payne, a government agent involved in the Trail of Tears (1838–39), the forced removal of the Cherokee ...(100 of 233 words)

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