Limestone County was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on February 6, 1818. Formed from land comprising Elk County that was created on May 24, 1817. Limestone County is west of Madison County, north of the Tennessee River, and east of the western boundary line of range six, west of the basis meridian of the county. An act of the state General Assembly on November 27, 1821 gave to the county all of the land belonging to Lauderdale County, in the fork of the Tennessee and Elk Rivers, east of range six. Today Limestone County is bounded on the north by
Giles
County, Tennessee on the east, by
Madison County, on the south by
Morgan and
Lawrence counties,
and on the west by
Lauderdale County.
The name of the county
comes from the creek which flows through it, whose bed is of hard limestone.
Athens was chosen as the county seat in 1819. Other towns of note are Belle
Mina, Elkmont, Capshaw and Mooresville.
History of
Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, by Thomas McAdory Owen
(Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921)
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