Excerpt from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a Detailed Record of Events From the Earliest Period to the Present; Biographical Sketches of Those Who Have Been Most Conspicuous in the Annals of the County; A Complete List of the Officials of Conecuh The original word from which the present name is Supposed to have been corrupted was Econneka, which, in the Creek tongue, means Land Of Cane. This is the rendering given by Col. M. H. Cruikshank, Of Talladega, to whom the author was referred by Prof. W. S. W'yman, Of the University Of Alabama. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.