Henry County

Named for Patrick Henry who, at the Second
Virginia Convention in 1775, famously said,
"Give me liberty or give me death!" Henry
county was inhabited by indigenous Muscogee
people before being occupied by France and
Spain, and finally governed by the English in
1763. Henry county was once the largest county
in Alabama, being the mother to Barbour,
Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva,
Houston, and Pike counties. It has been called,
"The Cradle of Wiregrass."