Eutaw, AL

Eutaw is Greene County’s seat, founded in 1841 after residents moved the county government from Erie to the new town. The courthouse became the center of town life early; the first one burned in 1868, and the brick replacement built in 1869 still gives the square its weight. Around it, the Greene County Courthouse Square District holds late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century commercial buildings and antebellum homes. Eutaw is a west Alabama Black Belt town where county government, old brick, and a courthouse square carry the story.