Editing Montgomery County, Alabama (section)

==History==
Montgomery County was established by dividing [[Monroe County, Alabama|Monroe County]] on December 6, 1816, by the [[Mississippi Territory|Mississippi Territorial Legislature]].<ref name="alabama-law-1823"/> It is named for [[Lemuel P. Montgomery]], a young [[U.S. Army]] officer killed at the [[Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)|Battle of Horseshoe Bend]], the final battle of the [[Creek War|Creek Indian war]], which was waged concurrently with the [[War of 1812]].<ref name="Hardy2015">{{cite book|last=Hardy|first=Michael C.|title=The Capitals of the Confederacy: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pn90CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|access-date=September 26, 2017|date=April 20, 2015|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=9781625854322|page=11}}</ref>

The city of [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], which is the [[county seat]], is named for [[Richard Montgomery]], an [[American Revolutionary War]] general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture [[Quebec City]], [[Canada]].<ref name="Hardy2015" />

Over much of the 19th century great wealth was derived from the cotton crop, with the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] producing a temporary setback. More lasting trouble came in 1914 with the arrival of the [[boll weevil]], which became very destructive to the cotton harvest from 1915 on.<ref>https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/alabama/montgomeryAL1926/montgomeryAL1926.pdf Soil Survey of Montgomery County, Alabama</ref> By the 1940s county farms earned more from cattle than cotton.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flynt|first1=Wayne|title=Poor But Proud|date=February 5, 2016|publisher=University of Alabama Press|location=6918}}</ref>