Editing Dadeville, Alabama (section)

==History==
Prior to its incorporation, Dadeville was an Indian [[trading post]] and a center of commerce where commodities such as cotton, lumber, tin, asbestos, and livestock were traded. The town was surveyed by John H. Broadnax in 1836,<ref name="Schafer2002"/> granted a charter in 1837, and first incorporated in 1858. Dadeville was named for Major [[Francis Langhorne Dade]],<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n97 98]}}</ref> who was killed in 1835 by [[Seminole]] Indians in a battle of the [[Second Seminole War]] that came to be known as the "[[Dade Massacre]]". Dade had never actually visited [[Tallapoosa County, Alabama|Tallapoosa County]].<ref name="Schafer2002">{{cite book |last1=Schafer |first1=Elizabeth D. |title=Lake Martin, Alabama's Crown Jewel |date=2002 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-2390-3 |pages=30–31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16RhGdhIH68C&pg=PA31 |language=en}}</ref>

As a [[stagecoach]] stop on the Tennessee Road between [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]] and Georgia, Dadeville was host to a stream of traders whose goods and livestock often crowded the square of the courthouse.<ref name="Schafer2002"/> Dadeville lost its charter during the [[Civil War (United States)|Civil War]], and was incorporated a second time in 1878. Dadeville has been the Tallapoosa County seat since 1838.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=''The Heritage of Tallapoosa County''|date=2000 |url=http://www.dadeville.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231035019/http://www.dadeville.com/ |archive-date=December 31, 2008 |access-date=July 15, 2010}}</ref>

Dadeville was home to the [[Graefenberg Medical Institute]], Alabama's first medical school, which operated from 1852 until the outbreak of the Civil War. Attempts to revive the school after the war failed, and the building burned in 1873.<ref name="encyclopediaofalabama.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2552 |title=Dadeville |access-date=July 16, 2010 |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621150950/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2552 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The completion of the [[Martin Dam]] on the [[Tallapoosa River]] in 1926 and the subsequent creation of [[Lake Martin]] had and continues to have a strong economic impact on Dadeville.<ref name="encyclopediaofalabama.org"/>

On April 15, 2023, [[2023 Dadeville shooting|four people were killed]] and 32 others were injured in a [[mass shooting]] at a party. Most of the victims were teenagers.<ref>{{cite news | last1 = Yan | first1 = Holly | last2 = Wolfe | first2 = Elizabeth | date = April 19, 2023 | title = 3 people face murder charges for the Sweet 16 party massacre that left 4 dead and 32 injured | url = https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/us/dadeville-alabama-birthday-party-shooting-wednesday/index.html | work = CNN}}</ref>