Editing Ohatchee, Alabama (section)

==History==
[[Andrew Jackson]] used the area around present-day Ohatchee to prepare for the [[Battle of Talladega]]. [[Lyncoya Jackson]] was orphaned by the [[Battle of Tallushatchee]] in November 1813 and later sent to Jackson's [[The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee)|Hermitage]] in Tennessee where he was raised. Lyncoya died of tuberculosis in 1828.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lyncoya (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/people/lyncoya.htm |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>

The site of the battle is marked with a large stone marker along Alabama Highway 144 between [[Alexandria, Alabama|Alexandria]] and Ohatchee, near Tallaseehatchee Creek.

Between 1863 and 1864, Alfred A. Janney built a furnace, now named Janney Furnace, to produce [[pig iron]] for the [[Confederate States of America]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref>[http://youareanidiotreborn.org/mwelsh2001/you.html About Janney Furnace<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The furnace never went into production, but locals often speak of the quality of the construction because the structure was supposedly built by slaves. The site is now a part of the Calhoun County Park System and features a Civil War memorial alongside a Civil War and Native American museum. The site hosts a town festival every year that includes vendors, children's activities, music, and a Civil War reenactment.

Ohatchee became an incorporated town in 1956. On [[Tornado outbreak sequence of March 24–28, 2021|March 25, 2021]], an [[Tornado outbreak sequence of March 24–28, 2021#Macon–Ohatchee–Wellington–Piedmont, Alabama|EF3 tornado]] struck the town, killing six residents.