Editing Helena, Alabama (section)

===Early settlers===
The area was long the territory of the historic [[Muscogee people]], known by English colonists as the [[Creek Indians]]. While Scots-Irish and English traders had interaction with them, and there was some armed conflict in the early 19th century, most European-American settlers did not come to this area until 1849. This was after the United States had conducted [[Indian Removal]] of the Creek and other Southeastern tribes in the 1830s, to lands west of the [[Mississippi River]].

The first European-American settlers to Helena, which they initially named Cove, were veterans of the final campaigns of the [[War of 1812]]. Members of [[Andrew Jackson]]'s army were attracted to the quiet, peaceful valleys and streams after the [[Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)|Battle of Horseshoe Bend]]. By 1856, the Cove post office opened. Shortly thereafter, the settlers changed the name of the town to Hillsboro.