As settlers were allowed into the region, an early writer said this about west Alabama, “The ambitious, restless, and lawless spirits of the old states who had fortunes to carve out or who desired to escape from the espionage of the law had poured into Sumter County. A mere five years earlier, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek had taken control of the area west of the Tombigbee River from the Choctaw Nation of Indians. The University of West Alabama began in 1835 as a church supported school for young women called Livingston Female Academy.
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