, Dale Co, AL

Dale County was established on December 22, 1824. It originally included the whole of what is now Coffee County and Geneva County , together with the "panhandle" portion of Houston County . The original county seat was located at Dale's Court House (now the town of Daleville ), but when Coffee County split from Dale in 1841, the seat was moved to Newton . Here it remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869 and the formation of Geneva County (which took the southern third of Dale County), the county seat was moved to the town of Ozark, where it remains.