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Valley Head History and Genealogy Website, Valley Head, Alabama in Dekalb County - Home
Valley Head Alabama Genealogy and History website They lived and died in a wilderness south of Canaan.
The Cherokee, the white settlers, the farmers, the miners, the soldiers, the wives, the mothers,
they were my ancestors, and perhaps your ancestors too.| Walk through the history of this little
town, listen to the stories, imagine their day.| | Looking at an old map of| Cherokee Towns and Villages,
it appears Valley Head is in the same area that was called Teloga, northeast of Wills Town.|
Today very little is know about the first inhabitants.| Excavations at a place called Dead Man
~Rs Curve, about five miles south west of Valley Head on US Highway 11,| yielded skeletal remains
believed to date between 7,000 B.C. and 700 A.D.| Water being necessary for sustaining life it is
possible that one or more of those individuals buried at Dead Man~Rs Curve passed through Valley Head
following the water trail, today known as Wills Creek.| | At one time, long ago Valley Head was home to a
small village of Native Americans.| | Once upon a time a large oak tree stood on the grounds that came
to be know as the Winston Place.| | Under this tree the Native Americans would hold council meetings.|
As the Europeans began to explore this area, the Native Americans were crowded out, then finally
forcibly removed.| The migration into the valley started in the late 1700~Rs. By the 1830~Rs
the white population was substantial.| Farms and churches soon dotted the landscape.
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