This web site
will give you a feel of what's Burnt Corn, Alabama is like. It was designed for the sole purpose of educating the world about Burnt Corn and to give you a window to communicate with us and to keep you in touch with this truly historic community.
Many people are unfamiliar with Burnt Corn, Alabama and have an instant dis-belief that it exists. Yes World, there really is a Burnt Corn.
First, the Burnt Corn web site tells you a little
bit of Information About Burnt Corn. We installed a Bulletin Board to inform you about the latest happens in Burnt
Corn and to use as a forum to post any upcoming events or local news. If anyone has any information to include on this web site can submit it the
Webmaster for posting. We invite visitors to
Sign Our Guest Book in order that we can keep track of the guests to our virtual Burnt Corn, Alabama community web site. If you like, you may also
View Our Guest Book to see who has been to visit the Burnt Corn web site and see what they had to say about us. If you wish to contact us via email just send it to
burntcorn@burntcorn.com
There is some background on the Old Federal Road that ran from Georgia near Burnt Corn through Fort Mims to Mobile.
There is an Old Map of the Federal Road in 1818 posted as well. I have found some information on the "Old Stage Road" that
runs directly through Burnt Corn. There
is a belief that the railroad had plans to route through Burnt Corn on its way to Mobile and/or Pensacola but plans were "derailed" because of the
Creek Indian War. The railroad was then routed through Evergreen, Alabama.
We even included
a history of Monroe County , a short history of Monroe County
and
short history of Conecuh County
The naming of Burnt Corn is an interesting tale. The truth is, I really don't know how Burnt Corn got its name, but there are different accounts of how it is believed to have gotten its name.
Some believe when white settlers moved into to the area of Burnt Corn Creek now known as Burnt Corn, they burned the Creek Indians
(then known as red sticks) corn fields to clear land to homestead.
Others believe that the Creek Indians burned the white settlers cornfields in an effort to drive them away from their land.
Another version reported by Samual A. Rumore, Jr and appeared in the January 1997 issue of The Alabama Lawyer that the main path from
Pensacola to the Upper Creek Nation passed by a spring (Burnt Corn Creek). A group of Indians traveling on the path were forced to leave an ailing companion there.
They provided him with a supply of corn. When he recovered, he had no way to carry the leftover corn so it stayed on the ground and eventually burned in his campfire.
Other travelers came along the trail and noted that they camped at a spring where the "corn
had burnt." The name Burnt Corn has remained there ever since.
What we do know about the history of Burnt Corn is that for over a hundred years Whites and Indians, and Blacks and Indians lived in peace and
harmony and intermarried in Burnt Corn until July 1813 when the battle of Burnt Corn occurred that led to the Creek War of 1813 and 1814.