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Morgan County, Alabama
Morgan County
is a
county
in the north central part of the
U.S. state
of
Alabama
. As of the
2010 census
the population was 119,490. The
county seat
is
Decatur
. The county was created by the
Alabama Territorial
legislature on February 6, 1818 from land acquired from the
Cherokee Indians
in the
Treaty of Turkeytown
, and was originally called Cotaco County. On June 14, 1821 it was renamed in honor of
American Revolutionary War
General
Daniel Morgan
of
Virginia
. It is a prohibition or
dry county
, though the city of Decatur is wet.
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