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- PFD official, fire marshal named deputy coroner
Autauga County Coroner Billy Brown, at left, talks with newly-sworn Deputy Coroner Dallis Johnson Tuesday in a briefing room of Prattville City Hall Annex.
- Couple faces charges in Sunday wreck
An unidentified couple could face criminal charges after one of them had to be cut from a mangled vehicle following a Sunday evening traffic mishap that happened at an intersection just outside Prattville's ...
- Airmen reach out, assist with tornado recovery in Prattville
"When we stepped off the bus, we saw pure devastation. I have never seen anything like this before," said Officer Trainee Joseph Van Valen as he and other volunteers sifted through rubble created from a tornado ...
- Police report four felony arrests
The following are recent felony arrests by the Montgomery Police Department: Kedric Dickerson, 31, of 1889 Gibbs Circle, apartment A, was arrested Wednesday and charged with probation revocation.
- Accused shoplifter slices hand with knife
PRATTVILLE -- A shoplifter cut his own hand when he tried to pull a knife on store security at Prattville's Big Kmart on Sunday afternoon, police reports show.
- Prattville run/walk is on for Saturday
The Crusing the Creek 5K/1-mile Fun Run and Walk is set for Saturday morning at the Doster Community Center, 425 Northington St., Prattville.
- No charges filed in Christmas Eve multi-car crash
A city police officer inspects the damage to a Ford Windstar van after it struck 10 other vehicles and a pe destrian in the parking lot of a Prattville shopping cen ter on Christmas Eve.
- Arrest made in '05 holiday homicide
Tuesday's arrest of a 45-year-old Selma parolee repre sented the culmination of a three-year probe by Autauga County Sheriff's Office investi gators into the December 2005 strangulation death of a county ...
- February tornado made the year's biggest impact
This home's swimming pool became the final resting place for furniture, toys, building materials and other debris sent flying by the Feb.
- Millbrook: Murder, elections, fire, economy among big news
Over the last 365 days, many positive events -- as well as a few negative ones -- took place in Elmore County, and in Mill brook specifically.
- Authorities make arrest in woman's 2005 slaying
PRATTVILLE -- Patricia Gayle Lasserre's body was found in the woods off County Road 1 in 2005.
- Teen escapee captured by local police
Alexander Uhria Thomas, center, is escorted to a Pratt ville Police Department patrol car by two city officers shortly after his Monday afternoon capture.
- Investigators look into burned dog case
PRATTVILLE -- The Autauga County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible animal cruelty case.
- Construction begins on new Prattville fire truck
PRATTVILLE -- The Prattville Fire Department's new $404,000 pumper truck is under construction in Florida and may take a year before it's ready.
- Prattville native selected to lead 187th
Chief Master Sgt. Michael E. Cone was recently named the new Command Chief for the Ala bama Air Guard's 178th Fighter Wing at Dannelly Field in Mont gomery.
- Council to buy 3 new police cars, FD engine
Prattville's city council com pleted its Christmas shopping last week by filling the wish lists of three municipal departments, but the recipients won't be able to enjoy the last-minute gifts un til after the ...
- Prattville will repay Elmore BOE in lump sum
Prattville's city council, concerned that continuation of small, monthly pay ments on a $1.2 million balance for sales tax payment they received in error would generate ill will between the city and the Elmore ...
- Prattville teenager suspected in several break-ins
A Prattville juvenile, ar rested Thursday in a rural El more County community, re mained in a Montgomery youth detention center this week as police in the Fountain City continued their investiga tion into the ...
- LETTER: Auto body shop is best around
I wish to call favorable attention to an auto body repair business in the Prattville area.
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City DescriptionPrattville is a city in Autauga and Elmore Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 31,119. The city is the county seat of Autauga County, Alabama. It is nicknamed "The Fountain City" due to the many artesian wells in the area. The city was founded in 1839 by well-known industrialist and architect Daniel Pratt. Prattville is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.
What is now Prattville was largely inhabited by Native Americans and a few settlers when Daniel Pratt, a native of Temple, New Hampshire, first observed the Autauga Creek in the 1830s.
Pratt purchased approximately 1,000 acres (4 km²) from Joseph May at $21.00 an acre, and set out to build his manufacturing facilities and the town along the banks of the Autauga creek. This location was chosen because the creek could supply power to the cotton gin manufacturing equipment.
In the past 10 years, Prattville's city limits have begun to expand eastward into neighboring Elmore County. While the original plan was to keep this portion of the city strictly commercial, due to the rapid increase in population, housing developments are currently being built ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Autauga County
- Alabama
- Elmore County
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