Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Attalla, AL

Attalla is a city in Etowah County that bills itself as the Gateway to Northeast Alabama; it is bordered on the east by Gadsden, the county seat.

Attalla occupies the site of a Muscogee (Creek) village that was important during the Creek War of 1813-14, when Andrew Jackson's army maintained a supply camp, Camp Wills, on Big Wills Creek here.

While living in the Attalla area, the Cherokee scholar David Brown, assisted by the Rev. D. S. Butterick, prepared the Cherokee Spelling Book.

The Marquis de Lafayette passed through the Attalla area during his celebrated farewell tour of the United States in 1825.

The settlement carried a string of names, including Bennettville, Newton, The Junction, and Bainsville, before the town was incorporated on February 5, 1872; it formally adopted the name Attalla in 1892.

The name Attalla is traditionally traced either to Chateaubriand's romantic novel Atala or to the Cherokee word otali, meaning mountain.

Attalla is the site of Alabama's first hydroelectric dam, built in 1887 to provide electricity for the city by power pioneer William Patrick Lay, who later founded the Alabama Power Company.

In the 1890s, Attalla was the largest iron-ore shipping point in Alabama.

In 1941 the federal government built Camp Siebert, a World War II training camp, on more than 37,000 acres, most of it within Attalla's present city limits.

Attalla's U.S. Post Office building, dating to 1925, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.